The subject says it all. Sterling Bay was going to try to re-purpose part of it but apparently it's all coming down. I lived right across the tracks from here. My son and I spent many hours watching the evening switch job. He developed a love for trains; a nice hobby we'll always be able to share.
One of these years, when I have free time, I'll post the numerous videos I took of those switching jobs.
With Continental Paper Grading being relocated, the only immediate downtown area industries left are Tribune and Blommer. And we all know that Trib plans on selling off that land in the near future.
Joe
Chicago gets lets interesting every year with the loss of its industrial heritage.
The Tribune was bought out this week by an investment group known for its aggressive cost-cutting. They will probably gut the paper with yet more layoffs and try to sell the land on which the Freedom Center printing press operates. The Tribune prints in addition to its own paper the Sun-Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times there under contracts.
I suppose they could outsource production to the go-to regional printer, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which has extra capacity at its printing press in West Milwaukee that is only some twenty years old and truck the newspapers to the Chicago area. CP services this printing press as it does with the much smaller Daily Herald printing press in Schaumburg.
