An electrical tower grew out of land scoured by industry east of the Calumet River at the city’s southern end. By 2000, a good deal of the East Side’s manufacturing quadrant—its pink skies, foul breezes and gilded ghosts—had been deserted. ©Paul Merideth / CITY 2000
Barge traffic continues to travel the water channels to and from the city beneath the 95th Street bridge of the Chicago-Indiana Skyway. ©Paul Merideth / CITY 2000
An electrical tower grew out of land scoured by industry east of the Calumet River at the city’s southern end. By 2000, a good deal of the East Side’s manufacturing quadrant—its pink skies, foul breezes and gilded ghosts—had been deserted. ©Paul Merideth / CITY 2000
Barge traffic continues to travel the water channels to and from the city beneath the 95th Street bridge of the Chicago-Indiana Skyway. ©Paul Merideth / CITY 2000
An electrical tower grew out of land scoured by industry east of the Calumet River at the city’s southern end. By 2000, a good deal of the East Side’s manufacturing quadrant—its pink skies, foul breezes and gilded ghosts—had been deserted. ©Paul Merideth / CITY 2000
Barge traffic continues to travel the water channels to and from the city beneath the 95th Street bridge of the Chicago-Indiana Skyway. ©Paul Merideth / CITY 2000
