The Giant Hole in Chicago
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- In the heart of downtown Chicago is a massive hole and not many people know its there. In fact, you really need a drone to get a great perspective. The hole was the start of The Chicago Spire, a huge skyscraper that was started in 2007. However, the project stopped in 2008 with the global financial crisis. What was left is a 50 million dollar hole that lives in the heart of Chicago.
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Film by the Chicago Aussie
Fun working on this with you man. Thank you for the opportunity!
I had fun with both of you as well. The way y'all both pegged my tight young hole, was an experience everyone needs to try...
Chicago aussie longnoseschwarzenstein
WOAH TYLER
Y'all should go swimming in the hole lol
“Hello”
"The sears tower, occasionally called the Willis tower"
This guy gets it.
Paul Campbell LMAO!! 😂😂
Wasn't the bldg converted to the Willis Tower around 10yr ago? 🤔 Sears, Sears Robuck is not a major chain anymore. BTW, I'm not from Chicago or IL...
@@DavidLLambertmobile yes it did, but Chicagoans are stubborn folk. We weren't changing the name lol
Fuck the Willis Tower. I refuse to accept it. It will always be the Sears Tower.
@jacob luna its willis tower. Brain dead democrat
thank you for calling the sears tower the sears tower
Yess!!
I don't get why people are so adamant to the change on name.
You mean the... the wi- the wil- the willi- nah its sears
Mandela effect lmao
Fr 😞
There is enormous potential for lining up Chicago's politicians and kicking them in to it 300 style, one at a time.
Yes, but first the hole must be filled with alligators.
paws mcgraws and sharks with lasers like in the Austin Powers movie.
@@mjisabeast231 lol "frickin laser beams.." - yes, I agree. 🤣🤣🤣
Best comment
"Madness....THIS IS CHI TOWN!!!" *kicks crooked politician in hole*
It's spelled Willis... It's pronounced sears...
Yasss hahaha
Lol I'm using that
"The Sears Tower, or 'Willis Tower', as it's occasionally referred to today..."
The mark of a true Chicagoan isn't measured by where he's born, but by the disdain in calling the Sears Tower 'Willis' and whether he puts ketchup or mustard on his hotdog.
Dale Galiniak I still refer to the city's tallest building as the Sears Tower and I am not even from Chicago. But I used to visit your great city.
Willis is a better name if you think of Wesley Willis. Sears is a crap company that was crap while it occupied that building. And people need to get over dumb shit like building names.
@@MilwaukeeF40C Sears is the best don't drag it through the mud.
what's wrong with Mr. Sears? did he happened to be a Civil war hero fighting for Confederation?
@@megaotstoy Sears and Roebuck were fine. Everything after the 50s was superfluous in the retail market.
The dragons come out of there...
LagiNaLangAko23 my thought exactly
You mean the shapeshifting ones?
burn it with fire@ghasan23
Khaleesi approves
Reminds me of Alduin raising dragons from their tombs
I never knew that and I live In Chicago 😂
Same
YMYB Vlogs ikr
Lmao
Same
U mean nigcago
Love the video - laughing as the camera pulls back to reveal the "light landscaping" which is basically about 12 trees widely-spaced. Classic!
It could have a couple giant X's carved into the ground al a Meigs field.
"The Dildo". They knew that's what it would be called.
I heard that Parisians call their second tower (the one not made by Gustave Eiffel) "Paris'middle finger".
Baguettes pls confirm
Nah. The DRILLDO.
We already have the vagina
The bildo
It’s the “Sears Tower” no matter who owns it.
You can call it the “BIG WILLY” if you want. But it’s always gonna be the Sears Tower.
That's messed up man I know 3 families that live in that hole. Good people
It's a neat feeling living right next to the hole that he's referring to and simultaneously peering out the window at it while he explains.
The fact that this video was straight forward and without fluff is the reason I subscribed. Also good info, but that’s easy to find. What’s not easy to find is a normal human being on UA-cam .
I live in Chicago. Why haven’t I seen this yet.
Erin Sarofim Samee
Bc of the trees.
You have to step out of your parent's basement
deez nutz attic
Naperville is not Chicago.
"Or the Willis Tower, as it's occasionally called..."
This guy Chicagos
Looks like a Nuclear missile silo.
nuclear dildo silo
Chicago Aussie yeah. Several Nike silos. One at Montrose Point. Another was in the Lake Calumet area, I beleive
Don't talk too much about it what if they're apart of the purge or zombies or air bacteria or something.
I wish the Chicago Spire is built in the near future
Chicago Aussie Absolutely
It never will be, I've been looking forward to it for almost 10 years since I was in high school and have kept up hope but everything that could've gone wrong did
I’m afraid that’s been cancelled as well lol
Right near the old slip it would make a nice grain elevator.
They have reopened documents and permits for it so it's possible
It is actually better that it didn't get built. Everything that Calatrava builds, falls apart.
Spaniard here, I 100% aproved your comment. We never let Calatrava build another building in Spain.
Oh snap
is this the same guy that bought the packard plant in detriot ?
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I remember being in 4th grade so intrigued by architecture & excited for the Chicago Spire. To my disappointment, it was postponed then never even constructed. (I never use emojis but)😞
Rip Chicago spire 😔
great drone work
I've lived in Chicago all my life and I never noticed this hole
I can definitely tell the improved production quality on this one. Excellent work! Keep it up!
Thank you for calling it the sears tower!
I always walk by this on my commute to a local art gallery and always imagine monsters live down there. 🙃
I lived in chicago my whole life and I never heard or seen this before.
This! Is! Chicago!
SKYSCRAPER!
Great to see someone else researched this site. I noticed it on my way to Navy Pier a few years back.
It reminded me of the prison in DARK KNIGHT RISES.
Very interesting story, thanks!
No dummy that’s Vault Tec making a base there you’ll see man
Now in August, 2019, and I see Chicago Aussi commenting on one of the latest of Tyler's video shorts about natural lighting, perhaps we have another treat coming to us soon, when you two guys do another collaboration in the near future? This and Tyler's video about filming this: classics for both of your channels. Great work.
I'm going to have to disagree with the rest of these viewers. I really wished this skyscraper would've been build! It would of been absolutely beautiful!!! It would of been the cherry on top of our skyline!! Excellent video Mr. Aussie!!
@@billybob042665 but it's still a beautiful city with one of the best skylines. Yes it's corrupt and a shithole, but a beautiful shithole, and maybe the Spire would have attracted more economic growth for the city
If I remember correctly this tower didn’t make sense economically. It was to be built so that Chicago could hold on to the tallest building title. Once to crash happened the fiasco was put to bed once and for all.
Strangely though I don’t consider 1 WTC to be the tallest in North America. The roof is exactly the same height as the original WTC. 1368 ft. The only difference is the larger antenna that they now consider to be a part of the building floor space. Nonsense. They should have made useable floor space higher than the sears towers before the antenna was counted.
B bo all it is is official height. Sears tower is still taller
"Lets make a skyscraper look like a drill bit."
Now I want to go see it, I've been living here for 36yrs & NEVER knew 🙄 thanks UA-cam
We have a similar hole in Nashville off West End Avenue near downtown. Called Lake Palmer after the failed real estate developer who dug the 80 foot hole in 2007 and the credit crunch/recession killed the project. As of 2018 its still a giant hole, thing is huge, like two city blocks in New York for scale.
What a handsome, articulate young man you are. As a fellow documentarian, it's refreshing to find someone your age who is NOT yelling and screaming and knows how to hold a camera steady. Great work. I'm from southern Indiana originally and spent a lot of time listening to Chicago radio stations. Did you know the major 50KW AM stations are 11KHZ apart? For example: 560 (add 11) 670 (add 11) 780 (add 11) 890 (add 11) 1000. If they were 10KHZ apart they might slightly interfere with each other. Thanks again for your well-planned and well-executed documentaries. Dennis (hourlynewscaster)
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@@smokey2540 Bitch stfu
@@smokey2540 Really?
@@deeznutz9998 Are you serious? That's the most important thing you could think of saying?
Baruch Ben-David one man talking to another says."What a handsome, articulate young man you are " is pretty gay to me.
I'm a life-long Chicagoan and I never knew that Lake Shore Drive ran through the heart of downtown town !
Bill Beliakoff lmao what? How is that possible
@@fioribeats; It's a joke. If Lake Shore Drive ran through the heart of downtown that would mean that half of downtown would be in Lake Michigan because "the drive" as we call it, runs along the lake. Hence the name Lake Shore Drive.
Bill Beliakoff right, which is why I said how is that possible. But now I know you’re being facetious
It doesn’t it skirts the est side of of it as a north/south highway. I use it everytime I drive for uber
I live in Chicago and I’ve never heard of this. Thanks.
I'm embarrassed. Lifelong Chicagoan here and I've never heard of this.
Thanks!
I really wish Chicago could get its act together
It’s Chicago’s fault that foreign investors went bankrupt and failed to pay a Spanish architect?
My thoughts almost the entire 15 years I lived there... lol.
Wtf I have lived in Chicago all my life and I have never heard of that
That's why they didn't fool you!
Calatrava's design was very impressive. I was following the development on line since his 2004 Olympic designs in Athens. Would be nice to see it in real life. Thank you Chicago Aussie for sharing this, well done!
Liked + Subscribed :)
Namaste. Chicago Aussie, I have discovered and enjoyed your channel. Grateful for your response. Be well:)
If you build it, they will come. That would be awesome to see that come to pass. The spiral, what a unique and awesome design. Looks like a giant reamer or drill bit!
good content. live in chicago. scribed
Chicago needs a super tall skyscraper
Chicago WOULD need another super tall skyscraper IF there were loads of people who needed to live downtown and loads of businesses who needed office space downtown. But Chicago is hostile to business, so businesses close and set up elsewhere, and people move out of the city to where the jobs are.
A lot of companies are setting up businesses in Milwaukee, Brookfield And Waukesha Wisconsin.
ROGER2095 what are you talking about? Chicago is the second largest central business district in the country. Chicago has the fastest growing downtown population in tht country, and leads the country in corporate relocation. Please you should inform yourself before throwing out misinformation.
ROGER2095 as a matter of fact there are about 5+ supertalls in the works and over 50+ skyscrapers construction in the downtown alone.
You think so, kid? I've lived here all my life. Stuff used to be manufactured in Chicago. Furnaces, cars, trains, . . . big stuff. Meat came from Chicago - It was the "hog butcher to the world." Swift, Kraft, Armour, etc. . . were names synonymous with Chicago. Chicago was the candy capitol of America but today there are only a handful of candy manufacturer's left. At the turn of the century, there were more than 100 bicycle manufacturer's within the city limits. Today there are none.
When I was born, the population of Chicago was 3.5 million. Today it's 2.7 million. People were able to walk to their jobs because there was manufacturing throughout the city. Alden's, a catalog company, had an ideal warehouse location on Cicero, near the Kennedy Expressway, with truck docks and rail access. 30 years ago they went out of business, and that ideally located warehouse is still sitting there - vacant.
There's still a demand for all that stuff, but one by one, industry leaves Chicago, and the population follows. Opening and operating a business in Chicago is a bureaucratic and political nightmare. So they go elsewhere.
Down the road is Bolingbrook, once a small, rural stop on Route 66. But in the 70's, they decided to be friendly to business and since then they've grown like a weed. Bolingbrook now has loads of big manufacturing and distribution operations and every one of them would be better off if they were located in Chicago, close to Chicago's transportation networks. (Rail, roads, and sea.) But it's easier and cheaper to operate outside the city.
When Navy Pier was being developed as a tourist destination, a friend of mine saw an opportunity to open a sunglasses shop there. When he applied for a business licence he was told flat out that to get the license he'd have to "contribute" $20,000 to the alderman's re-election campaign. He didn't. His business is now somewhere else.
That was interesting. Thanks for the video.
Awesome video dude!
That’s chicago’s Sarlac pit.
So many murder weapons down there.
That so cool and i have lived in chicago my whole life and i been to down town all the time
A nice, short, on point video.
Not really sorry it was never built. I love the Chicago skyline but that was one monster too many.
It's a real shame this was never built.
Wow I had no idea about that!! Very interesting video, keep it up!!
Short and to the point. Nice video.
the Gateway Tower will be build there soon.
no, there is nothing that actually suggests that it won't be built. of course currently it still in the concept stage, yes, but it is an officially proposed plan with a pending approval status. there is definitely demand, and we can be sure that that site will receive a massive building. and with the way things are going with American economy, and Trump as President, we can be sure something on that scale and the magnitude will be built. the gateway tower is gorgeous and fits Chicago perfectly, a much better design than the spire. we'll see. greetings to you, from germany.
Is that the tower that looks like it's leaning on a crutch? No thanks...
you can build it, and they did not go through a full design just for the sake of a PR stunt as you suggest, actually the former spire site in in search for a proper replacement project and the gateway tower is actually a serious proposal with pending approval status. I know that first hand actually. thing is, they would need to get a special permission to build it as proposed, as the design stretches out to east of lake shore drive. as you correctly mentioned. you can build there, but you have to get the special permit. anyhow, we will see what happens.
Chicago Aussie why cant they build on the east side of Lake Shore Drive?
Robert Preskop first of all, that land is owned by the city (will some day become DuSable Park). Secondly, city ordinance has for decades banned new developments from being constructed east of Lake Shore Drive (which is why Lake Shore Tower will maintain its place as the only skyscraper built on the east side of LSD)
Kinda looks like a baguette
I have been to Chicago before. The skyline and everything is very beautiful!!!!
Very interesting! I live in Northern Illinois and I had never heard of this project before.
in other words. someone fk up :) so were not getting the tallest building. :/
Wait a sec when did my ex girlfriend move to Chicago?
Thanks for having captions for the Deaf.
Yeah, my hiking group visited that. Pretty cool.
Can I buy it? I got $2 dollars!
sure if you wish to pay the 100 grand land tax every year
the hole is not big enough to represent americas debt
@Brandon Thanks to Bush who signed the US up to several enormous projects in his final year in office.
Props to this man calling it the Sears tower first! Respect
I love my city!!!! I travel a lot ,but each time I come home, I feel like I'm exactly where im suppose to be!! Chicago is simply amazing!
No problems with crime?
I wish I could visit Chicago!!
Chicago Aussie I’d most definitely like that 😊
Come u are very welcome to my beautiful city lots of things to do here you will not be disappointed.......
Why in the name of god would anyone want to go there, thats like wanting to go to Detroit.
@@leedykes6959 ua-cam.com/video/OXFPMc6bxeM/v-deo.html watch this video and visit the places that this guy did and trust me you'll love my city you want to come back again
Just don't go to the south side.
The most crooked city beside sanfransico v
Los Angeles
Two awesome cities.
I'll give Chicago credit, there's less poop on the ground!
gilbert martinez it ain’t that bad buddy just avoid going to a few locations
In San Francisco, junkies openly inject heroin on the streets, has the worst case of open defecation too.
That is wild I always wondered how far the construction went. I was so bummed when that project failed.
I remember when the Spire was being built. I was so excited to see this masterpiece built but of course we know how that ended up
Thats crazy Im from Chicago and I never knew about this massive hole!
Great video
I saw this when I was in Chicago an was so confused by it, like it really doesn’t fit the picture with trees growing in it and stuff but seeing what it actually is now is amazing haha
This is a good representation of Chicago
Omg I remember now that we were on a river tour in 2007 and they talked about this and I always wondered what happened. It all makes sense now.
Wow I thought I was a true Chicagoan but never knew about this, thanks for sharing!!
I’ve lived in Chicago for all my life and I didn’t even know about this. Wow.
I remmber the chicago spire being talked about. I did not know it was supposed to be that high nor did i realize that construction had stopped for over a decade. Honestly i dont think i realized construction was ever started.
I love your little "the Sears tower, or Willis Tower as its occasionally referred to" line lmao
Nice one Tyler
AH! I read about that in an article about upcomming skyscrapers long ago.
Chicago: Building the Tallest building on earth
Dubai:hold my money
Wow. I didn't know that was there.
I saw it when I was crossing the bridge going to the Navy Pier and was wondering what it was. Great video!
Thanks
Nice and short with good info
Gr from the netherlands
I can't imagine how they would ever find enough tenants who could afford to live in one of those luxury apartments in a city that is bankrupt and in a state that is bankrupt as well. People are fleeing Chicago and Illinois in droves, and with the latest tax increases in Chicago, I suspect even more will be leaving. Irresponsible spending and government corruption has consequences.
Nice video Aussie. When you said Chicago hole I did not know you were talking about a building. Looking at your video pictures it looks like a giant drain for nearby Lake Michigan. But, I think the windy politicians in Chicago need that hole to bury our tremendous debt and pension obligations. Cheers to Oz !
Hey so I’m kinda late to the party, but I walked past this hole like two Saturdays ago, and was wondering what it was. Now here I am watching this video ;) thank you.
I've seen this so many times and wondered what was up with it, interesting to find out
I passed here when visiting Chicago and wonder what it was. Thanks for answering.
Great video i liked this
The 2008 financial crisis really screwed over a very large amount of projects that would've been really neat to have seen completed.
Would love 2 see this be completed, it would make a great addition to the skyline
The name changed, it's now the "What you talking about Willis Tower"
I live in Chicago and I never knew about this!
Wow I live in Chicago and I’ve never heard of this very interesting
Thanks guys lived in Chicago 30+ years and never heard about this just proves Chicago dose have a big hole in the ground
@@ChicagoAussie maybe but Chicago and Cook county is going to hell in a hand basket fast that's why I take 294 to avoid as much as I can