Chicago’s water tanks are back in the news, thanks to a report from WGN’s Lourdes Duarte. I started scrambling to find what photos I didn’t lose in the Great Hard Drive Debacle of 2017. Here are a few tanks that have come down from the skyline in recent years.
***If you get really bored, you can do a fly-over tour of Chicago on Google Maps and find water tanks in older views that are still on the map, but have since been demolished. You’ll find a lot more than I have pictured here.
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- The W.M. Hoyt Building, 465 W. Cermak Rd.
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- 114 S. State St.
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- 404 S. Wells St.
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- 412 S. Wells St.
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- 1217 W. Washington Blvd was just demolished, along with the rest of the building.
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- Archer Daniels Midland grain silos, 1300 W/ Carroll St.
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- 1500 N. Halsted St.
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- Clybourn Lofts, 1872 N. Clybourn Ave.
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- What is now The Ronsley, at 676 N. Kingsbury St.
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- 2515 S. Wabash Ave.
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- Clinton Street Lofts, 226 N. Clinton St.
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- 1882 S. Normal Ave.
Building Up Chicago 