Not sure if this ever got posted...
Above is an old picture of the Sears' headquarters in Chicago, taken in 1906.
Here are some pictures from when I took a tour with the Archicenter of the West Side neighborhood called North Lawndale. North Lawndale, formerly a large Jewish industrial neighborhood, has been blighted for about 50 years now, since the riots of the 1960s. Parts of it still look like they used to, and parts look like war-zones.
Lawndale is unique in Chicago for having the most "greystones" of any neighborhood - houses built with rock from limestone quarries in the Chicago area. These houses are notable for their white stone look.
We got to get into the old Sears plant, where there used to stand the world's largest warehouse. The distribution/merchandise warehouse is long gone, but parts of the campus remain, including the tower, the power house, and the administration building. We got into all three of these.
The Power Plant
These pictures (below) are of the office tower that is being converted into condos and the new community building now occupying the footprint of where the giant warehouse used to stand.
Finally, an abandoned temple on Independence Blvd.
