Digital Live Sound Video: Demolition of Chicago's Washburne Trade School on West 31st Street. Chicago Illinois USA. Late July 2009.

I photographed this digital live sound video one day last year, on location in My old neighborhood of all places.

I attended Washburne Trade School at South Kedzie Avenue and West 31st Street Myself, during the early 1980's after I had graduated from Curie High School.
It was a "waste of money" attending there, because contrary to what the industry reps told us about careers and opportunities at the fall orientation...times were tough and there were no jobs to be found. Heck! They not only did not show up at our graduation dinner...but they "Avoided The Issue" when I later approached them about finding work at their companys. Boooooo!!!!

Needless to say, Washburne Trade School closed by the end of the decade and sat vacant for several years. Begining in late 2006, demolition began here in stages.
Here We see the building undergoing the final stages of demolition in late July of last year.

The old Washburne Trade School site today....is a big vacant lot with temporary construction fencing around it. Local citizens and politicians want to develope this site as a large city park in the near future.

Eddie K.