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Two photos from this morning (slowly easing back into light trespassing after not doing much in 2015.)

(Saving Chicago’s vacant and under-utilized church buildings is important, but I’m posting this link mainly because the article is illustrated with a few of my photos including this shot of St. Laurence, taken shortly before the building was demolished in 2014.)

Malcolm X College, 1/23/16

Saw this today. Really good.

Zombie ghoststore (now demolished), 2015

also: Lee Bey photographed and wrote about the Ebony/Jet building interior spaces back in 2013.

Ceiling, Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica, 2015

(Finally getting around to editing photos I shot 2 years ago...)

Today: "...the first wrecking ball is scheduled to slam into The Plaza, the 63-year-old mall at 95th Street and Western Avenue. The Plaza, which opened as an outdoor mall, has historical significance because it was America's first suburban indoor mall when it was enclosed in the early 1960s. It had 120 stores and a food court at its peak during the 1960s and '70s. But it gradually fell on tough times and since 2013 has been all but vacant..." (source)

The building is still there, but the slipcover and hand-painted “5212″ is not.

72nd and Stony Island, 2013/2014

The news from St. Dominic’s (as of 8/8/15)

Entrance, former Salerno Cookie Factory, 4500 W. Division (now demolished)

This morning, behind St. Dominic’s.

Soon to be an empty lot.

Thanks, Gapers Block (3245 W. Arthington, 2011. Still vacant in 2015.)