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The Post Office (you know, the big one that looms over the Ike?) is going up for auction, starting at $300,000. Katherine Raz took a peek inside the mammoth building.
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Imagine the amazing indoor paintball games you could have. And by games, I mean wars.
I still think it would be the world's greatest club.
Y2K replaced the now abandoned Chicago Central Post Office with a high-technolgy mail sorting center just down Canal Street. One of my leading projects was to engineer & manage the installation of the electronic gated security system @ the new Chicago Central Post Office after providing similar services to its predecessor.
I've enjoyed watching the Dark Night Batman Blu-Ray movie & recall walking the expansive floors on construction estimate visits when the USPS was one of my Chicago South Loop clients.
The Gapers Block article provides a link to a fantastic Flickr photo stream for the Central Post Office building.
Remember the bank heist scene in Dark Knight?
How about now?



Windy Citizen photo blogger Justin Goh has a fine selection of Old Post Office building pics posted today, too.
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