Demolition of the historic Damen Silos on Chicago’s Southwest Side began this week, despite pushback from local preservationists.
The silos, located near 29th Street and Damen Avenue, will be dismantled piece by piece, in a gradual demolition process without the use of major blasts. This is to avoid repeating the mistakes that led to Little Village being smoldered in dust over Easter Weekend in 2020 from the botched implosion of a former coal plant.
The demolition will involve five buildings, with the largest part of the project focused on two sets of 80-foot concrete silos and a tower approximately 110 feet tall.
Video at one point showed a large tower toppling into a dust cloud as the process unfolded.
City inspectors will be on-site daily during active demolition to monitor the process and ensure all necessary safety precautions are being followed, city officials said.
Representatives from the Department of Buildings, the Chicago Department of Public Health and the contractor company hired for the job, Heneghan Wrecking, faced strong opposition from preservationists during a community meeting last month as contractors outlined a potential plan for demolition.
Residents hammered the representatives with questions about how contractors and the city would ensure that the buildings will be torn down safely and without a negative environmental damage to the community.
Department of Buildings Commissioner Marlene Hopkins said at the meeting that the silos would be demolished using an excavator and cranes with a high-reach excavator. Hopkins said barges would be placed along the north and east elevations adjacent to the structures to serve as a catch deck to protect the waterways from debris. Buildings three, four and five will be demolished using excavators with grapples and buckets.
Health Commissioner Olusimbo Ige described the project as an “environmentally complex” demolition, requiring extra precautions to ensure it is carried out safely.
The demolition is expected to take about six months to complete.
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