Tuesday, March 2, 2010

The Dixie Square Mall

Reading my newsgroups today, I saw a piece about the Dixie Square Mall just outside of Chicago. It opened in the sixties and closed in the late 70's. They used the closed mall for an indoor car chase in the Blues Brothers film. Then it was used as a temporary high school(!?)briefly and then was closed and left to rot.
A few attempts were made to renovate or demolish it, but then they ran into asbestos issues and it stopped. It's very rare for any structure of this type to be sitting dormant for so long.
Now it appears that it will finally be demolished for....a strip mall, with maybe a target.
Here are a few posts about it from people much more fearless than I...
Deadmall
Blues Brothers Central
Barraclou
Flickr

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