Unfortunately, this channel has been killed. I'm sorry to all you out there that watched me from the beginning. It really meant and still means the world to me. I'm leaving the channel here as a form of...archive I suppose. I have a few videos on here that really touched people that used to live and work in the place I explored, so I felt it's only fair that I keep them up. I love you all, but this is goodbye.
This place is Amazing..In the Early 80's we explored the remains of the old Union stockyards I believe they are totally gone now. Yeah Chicago's history of grain and meat is very rich.. Chicago once housed the biggest grain elevators and stockyard in the known world.. Union stockyard was owned and operated by Armor foods closed in 1971. In the 80s it wasn't so easy to film or even take good quality photographs and urban exploring wasn't an even a term then.. Sadly younger people have grown up seeing all the Urban decay of the heyday of the industrial revolution as well as the early food chain.. it's all Global now. Little interesting fact. The first grain elevators constructed were financed by a businessman who was lucky to even know what grain was. He just seen the Large prophets that could be made by hoarding the Grain in these storage facilities known as grain elevators and silos.. Every morning first stock on the board is gain. His motivation was to set markets as well as prices.. The mechanics of modern-day business was born of the food chain prior to the industrial revolution... I personally wish younger people could have seen these places in operation rather than in they're decaying form..
I remember exploring this place in high school with my ex who heard about it from her big brother. We visited a few times so seeing your vid brought back so many mems hahah
At the time of your video Chris Richmond was the city of Springfield's Fire Marshall, he has since retired, and now heads the non-profit moving Pillsbury forward, trying to clean up the site, and redevelop it. My grandpa retired from this plant in the early 80s. My mom has told me stories about the company picnics at the lake.
Great story sir! I just did a short film on the Abandoned Silos we have here in San Francisco. Feel free to check it out! Keep up the awesome work your new sub!
Rectangular building is the coal bunker/coal tower people call if different things. If you get to the top you can see the gates where coal fell down from. Hence the name it was where the larry cars used a locking bar to get more coal for the next charge
Just found your channel and I'm loving what I'm seeing. Noticed you haven't posted in a while, hope all is well. I would definitely be interested in more of these videos, if you ever made your return.
It’s not that it’s been demolished, it falling apart from decay. It’s incredibly unsafe to be in a lot of it because the floor will just give out. I’m sure you’ve heard about the dog that got on the roof and died. The reason it wasn’t rescued was because of where it was and how dangerous it was for a person to walk there. Not to mention the asbestos that is still in there and exposed. It really is a shame that it can’t be saved and used to bring work back into the city. Also, we are Central Illinois, not Southern. You must be from the Chicago area lol.
This is really cool and I am really glad it was not tore down...Do you know what year the school was built? It would have been nice to see slower shots of the heating boilers .I wonder if those are hot water or steam boilers. .I always got the janitor etc. to show me the boiler and fan rooms of the schools I attended years ago.....Interesting underground tunnels with the steam/ hot water pipes .....The roof is neat to see....
I'm jealous, back in 2019 (before the pandemic) I made my way onto the property and was in there for a whopping 5 minutes before I got caught by security and kicked off the premises 😆😆😆
Peoria isn't near southern Illinois. But it is south of the Chi. But still pretty cool. The state could probably sell the land faster if they tore down the remaining buildings
I went here last night and sneaked through a little tight hole in the fence deep down the street and I only made it to the first building before the security car started rolling and I thought it saw us but he left.. I wasn’t able to go to the silos tho.. Im going tonight or tomorrow but I feel like I would get lost tho😅 there’s so many halls and no end 😅
I remember exploring the site back when I was in 8th grade roughly a year before this video, bringing with me some of my younger classmates, we explored the base of the elevator, and the warehouses nearby, no way were we kids gonna get to the top from that rope that hung from the side of the firestairs!! We were actually pretty well on our way, security ended up catching us on our way out, luckily guy probably could tell our young ages and just told us to sodd off with a verbal warning lmao
Came across this gem 💎,,, I always pass by those silos and wondered what it looked like on the inside, just seeing that beautiful view of my home on the south side of chicago just stunning ❤ go sox !!!! And great video man 👍👍👍
I'm really surprised your channel isn't bigger yet. This has to be some of the best footage I've seen so far. Your style reminds me of The Proper People, in a way.
You should totally try and do the old asylum again! I go to school in the area. So cool to see these places. There are a lot more abandoned industrial sites in the St. Louis area, especially along the river and the railroad tracks. On both the St. Louis side & the metro east side.
