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Demolition for the historic Damen Silos on Chicago's Southwest Side was supposed to begin Monday, despite a yearslong battle by preservationists and community groups to save them. The silos, located ...

Last April, on two warm evenings, more than a hundred Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea residents filled public hearings to deliver an unequivocal message, through grief, questions, and defiance, that they ...