Orchard Avenue, August 2009
Orchard Avenue, April 2010
Orchard Avenue, June 2010
With clearance obtained, the demolition of Bensenville has proceeded with astonishing speed. Two months after the work began, every single house is gone. The only survivors are a 1920s gas station, and the apartment complex at the east end of the area.
View east from Orchard Avenue
North of Irving Park, the land is almost clear of everything except streets.
Orchard Road
Garden Avenue
Garden Avenue
Okay, sure, I would have photographed those railings anyway, 'cause they're poetic and pathos-evoking and all that... but mainly I photographed them because they were the only identifiable landmark left on this side of the road.
South of Irving Park, there's a lot more rubble. Some foundations remain, and piles of salvaged scrap metal remain in the streets.
Garden Avenue
Pershing Avenue
2 comments:
Wow, it's starting to look like northern Illinois prairie again.
I want my home back :'(
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