Sauter Building (Stern's) | Waukegan, IL
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- Опубліковано 1 кві 2018
- 4:30 AM in an abandoned, historic apartment block in downtown Waukegan - mere days before it was demolished in 2014. Hope you have a strong stomach...
A complete history and photo tour: jonrev.com/2016/01/30/sauter/
Presented raw, with minimal editing. This was a very difficult location to film due to the populated area (the Lake County Jail is practically across the street from here), the gear we were running at the time, and the idiotically-dangerous method of entry. Late-nights were the only option, here.
Never in my life have I encountered this level of "pigeon hell"... pigeon crap, pigeon corpses, severed pigeon body parts. You name it. The exterior of this place, though... the fact it was demolished so carelessly absolutely stands as the worst crime against architecture in Waukegan history.
We did explore Stern's about two years prior, but did not think to film it at the time.
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The documentation of this was extremely gratifying. For someone who was too young to understand the importance of this building in his own city, I thank you for letting me see it inside and out.
There is no venture capital flowing in Waukegan so this corner will be a vacant corner for many years to come. Perhaps the City can turn the corner into a green space and call it, Sterns Park
Me and my clc love used to chill there outside the building stairs !🤣She used to love that building a lot for some reason🤔 I still got some pictures of us in that building. & I still can’t believe they torn it down in 2014 🤦♂️
I know this video is pretty old so I’m commenting mainly for myself. I was born in Waukegan (1960, St Therese). My father was born in Mexico City but came to Waukegan with my grandmother in 1928 at age 2. He eventually worked and retired from Waukegan Wire mill after 32 years when it closed. When he was a young man he, my grandma and my mother lived in these apartments. I think my grandma rented out rooms to people. That’s how my father met my mother. He told the story of how someone tried to break in to my mom’s room and he grabbed a knife and drove the guy out the window. This was probably 1946/47. I shopped many times at Stern’s, bought a suit there, it was a very hip place in the 70’s. Kind of sad but I’m grateful that I got to see the apartments that were part of my family’s history.
Aaand now I'm itching😣!
Great video, though. I didn't know this building was torn down. I grew up in Highland Park but spent a lot of time in Zion and Waukegan visiting family. I remember the older gentlemen in my family frequenting that place for Stacey Adams shoes.. they were a big thing back then! lol. Sad to see it gone.
You're doing gods work, I live in lake Zurich IL and I wish I got to these types of buildings before they tore em all down
The sound in 7,48 scared me. It sounded like a Hunter in Resident Evil 😜
Thanks for sharing this
Building opposite has been fully restored and renovated. (google map amd Street View) The First National Bank still there. And City obsesses with demoliting Sauter Building. Had it been restored. Im sure other buildings would have appeared adjoining it. Bringing back people to the area.
Its nothing new this bull shit happens quite alot in UK. Historic buildings left neglected demolished gravel parking lots for 10 years before anything is built and its usually generic highrise apartments with no character that appears in every town and city in UK, US Europe probably Australia too!
Interesting video. Thanks.
seems to be some cool stuff that could have been salvaged - even the older doorknobs
Looks like that 5 star north Chicago apartment on the corner of 23 & lewis owned by troy.
Lived there as a child in the sixties
And they haven't built anything there since as of last year. That little garden they had there was removed too.
They want to plant this massive hotel/residential/retail/parking abomination on this entire block. I love Waukegan to death, but I'm not getting my hopes up on this one (and I find its architecture repulsive): greaterwaukegan.org/redevelopment-partnership/greentown-center/
@@jonrev done this to Leicester, Nottingham Bradford, Liverpool (that lost it's World Heritage Status) no thanks to ugly blocks of glass and steel that replaced the old brick & stone buildings, city councils leave beautiful old buildings to vandals and arsonists, then build monolithic monstrosities.
I use to go to that building on Saturday for a like youth city don't fuck up life kid group they only used a small portion of the building at that point pretty much for free I'm sure
EEWWW How long was that bird there? 6:08 It's look leathery and old! OMG
Likely many years, they had decomposed to bare skeletons. Even as it was being demolished, the pigeons kept trying to roost, here... scattering every time the excavator took another swing at the place.