Exploring Chicago's Most Elegant Abandoned Bank
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Our journey brings us to a rather peculiar place, in the heart of Chicago’s suburbs we found a completely intact bank that has been abandoned since the year 2008. Karl Vitzthum, the architect, decided to give the building a Classical Revival-style design to convey a sense of security and permanence. Many newspapers called the bank “Chicago’s most elegant bank” when it was finished in 1926. The five-story building cost about $650,000, which is about 11 million dollars today. For many years, it served the local community in this Chicago neighborhood. Families would come here to do all kinds of banking activities, but most of the stories you still hear are about going to the grand vault in the basement to check on a deposit box. In the mid-1990s, the bank was rebranded as Banco Popular, which was a natural occurrence because the Puerto Rican population of this particular neighborhood grew exponentially. For two more decades, this was the communities centerpiece, but the expenditures of keeping up such a building grew out of hand, and the management decided to leave this property behind and move the bank across the street to a smaller and cheaper facility. Although it has been 14 years since the last customer walked through its doors, the property hasn’t let out its last breath yet. Just a couple of months after the filming of this documentary, renovation works on the property started, and the end goal is to turn it into a cultural hub and social housing for the community.
Let us show you what was once the most elegant bank in Chicago.
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Filmed by Danny and Lesley
Edited by ES Forgotten (Danny) @ES.Forgotten
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At least the city decided not to demolish it to make room for expensive condo's. The world needs social housing.
Many people are dying in the streets with no real access to help, unfortunately health care is having issues living up to its full potential, some say bureaucratic red tape, others blame the failing government & low economy from the lack of work interest on one side & then the lack of available jobs at fair wages. So until the negotiations start between the system & the people, it's just going to be hard times for many. 😢
What likely happened is that the bank staff would take the customer into the vault where the bank staff and customer would both use their keys to open the safe deposit box then the customer would go to the private room, do their business and it would be taken back to the vault by the customer and staff and locked up again.
Imagine a good restaurant there. VIP lounges in the tresor rooms.
“In the heart of Chicago suburbs, we found an abandoned completely intact bank”. Dude, that’s in Chicago, not the suburbs.
Blue print?
Русских субтитров нет, вы серьезно, Россия такая маленькая страна на планете что не достойна перевода сраной видюхи????
In case you get locked in it's so you can breathe air, and a escape hatch.
The basement where the big main vault was half flooded
수고많이 하셨네요 이렇게끼지힘들게 찍어야하나요 항상 조심하세요 추은 날씨에🤗👍🙏
I don't want to be "THAT"person, but isn't this breaking and entering? I mean, this is still private property, right? and it's not like you're hiding exactly who you are… Just wondering about the legalities of it all. If it's "only" fines, that would be one thing, but aren't you risking prison for this?
Again, I don't want to be that person, just worried.
Recording yourself..essentially breaking into buildings?
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick asses! (C)
Simplemente excelente …
Hello, greetings from Germany, in the 90s we had a techno club in an old bank. TRESOR BERLIN, that was a fantastic time. Your bank in Chicago reminds me of that club. The view of Chicago from the roof, I envy you for that view. Super interesting post from you. Thanks for taking me along. 🤜🤛👍👍👍😀
07:50 don't open, dead inside", a cear reference for The Walking Dead's series first episodes.
I hope this video was worth making since you have filmed yourselves committing a Felony.
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Very nice Video
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My bank as a kid..it was beautiful inside. The neighborhood is now crap..
Раньше строили очень величественные фундаментальные здания
“Wooow! I can’t believe this! Oh my god!”
Fucking millennials. Like they’ve landed on Mars, or something. Pathetic.
всем на пол! это ограбление!