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Originally Posted by Baronvonellis
Yea, those aerials are sad. If you didn't already know, there a website out there where you can view those 1938 aerials like google maps, move them around and zoom in and then compare them to other decades aerials up till the present google maps. It's alot easier than clicking on still images.
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What's sad is that this destruction is ongoing. Just the other day a vintage 4 flat that I didn't even know was in demo court got razed less than a block from the California Pink Line. It's now on the market as a vacant lot for $60,000... I would have paid $100k even if it were totally trashed.
But yeah, we have an investment crisis, not a disinvestment crisis! Don't worry about all the homes being torn down, be pissed at the "greedy developers" who dare save them from destruction... /S
There is no affordability crisis in Chicago, we need to direct development to the places where we are losing vintage housing stock each and every day. It's absurd that we continue to level hundreds of vintage buildings like this a year for no good reason...