This reminds me of when Ohare used eminent domain to evict ⅓ of Bensenville's residents for the new runway construction - fucked up to think airplanes are now landing on all of those memories - someone's first kiss, where someone buried the family dog/cat. Where someone's kids and grandkids grew up, drew their height charts on the wall etc etc. They offered the residents pretty good $ at first but many declined. Over time ohare let the residential properties they owned get really dilapidated and overgrown, as a result more people would leave and so on and on and on. Eventually it looked like an episode of the walking dead in the neighborhood. As far as the holdouts- welp the economy crashed and property values plummeted. Ohare then used eminent domain to remove the last few people and pay them market value (which was jack shit compared to what they were offered the 1st time).
@michellem7300 I am unaware of any water quality issues being linked to the O'Hare expansion. I've documented this case extensively while it was happening.
Man...to imagine that the original people to "invest" in these properties took out loans for 100k-200k and then to have no choice but to walk away and abandon these places. It's absolutely criminal.
I was shocked when another comment identified these homes as being in Westchester. Its been 60 years since I last walked back there, but I remember the area and those houses well. I grew up near there. The landfill mentioned was the old John Sexton limestone pits. Back in '55, they were dug for the gravel that built the adjacent Illinois toll road. Just to the east of these homes is open prairie that streetlights and fire hydrants can still be found spread out over the many acres of open prairie. Back in the 50's you could still see the outlines of streets that were never paved. The subdivision was started by Samuel Insul. My grandfather was a home builder and worked for him. The planned subdivision never got built, as Insul went bankrupt in '29. Unfortunately, he had sold most of the lots to new home buyers.The village of Westchester was developed by him. He was from England and wanted Westchester to be like the English village he grew up in. The lots were all 30' lot widths and never got built on, as building codes were changed after the war to a minimal 50' lot width to be buildable. So, the people that bought the lots just abandoned them. Those houses shown in this video all went up back in the 50's. It's no wonder their wells had water problems. They let everything under the sun be dumped in those deep gravel pits. Back in the summer of 1967 , my brother and I pushed a 1956 Chevy Belair convertible into the open pit. We watched as a bulldozer plowed it under. Once in a while as I drive down 31st street, past those houses, I think about that old '56 ragtop , still rusting away at the bottom of that pit, which is a pine tree covered hill today.
You know the strange thing about that you're absolutely right where it is. When ya turn off and you drive down HL while most of the houses are abandoned there still some people back there and one or two of them still living there I was amazed to see that. Knowing the dangers that under the ground to which is crazy.
@@Tankeryanker1994 they may clean the top soil but if it's leatched into the wells/aquifer then all in the area will be effected and possibly eventually told to leave. Unless you own the land you live on which most do not.
It’s a weirdly heart wrenching feeling seeing a neighborhood that used to be full of life just abandoned. I wish I knew the backstories of all the houses and the ones who lived there.
I grew up near this neighborhood and went to high school with a couple of people that lived there. I knew the people that lived in the house @ 2:14 of the video during the late '60s. I visited many times. It was a beautiful home back then. The owners sold in 1969 due to relocation out of state. Nobody knew back then that they would have a toxic landfill in their backyard.
I grew up pretty close to this. A lot of my friends got weird rare cancers in Highschool, come to find out we had the second most toxic landfill in america getting into the water. If you don’t believe me look it up! Near Wauconda Illinois
This needs to happen to Satellite Beach Florida. People there have higher rates of cancer and it’s just swept under the rug. There were toxic waste dumps there that were just built over, yet no one does anything. I found maps of the waste sites on the internet a long time ago but can’t find them anymore.
I bet someone high up deleted those old maps, so years down the line developers can say, we didn't know anything about toxic waste there. The high ups go hmm that waste magically disappeared.
@@rev.tommiestovall7541 There was a landfill directly west of the properties. The landfill was not properly built. Vinyl chloride was found to have gone from the landfill into the water wells of the homes. A water line was constructed in the late 80s providing city water to the houses, but people still ended up leaving.
I am certain that the mortgage companies still went after these homeowners. Despicable. Hope you guys came out safe and healthy. Thank-You for sharing.
@@Kanamit. Not true. With an environmental disaster, either the homeowner or the banks are compensated and required to quit the property. It isn't an option. Either the state or federal government buys them out. Even without that, any mortgage holder can give the keys back to the bank and walk away from the property.
KG- I’ve explored two of those houses you went in about a year ago. Be careful because it’s a “private drive” down that street and I’ve seen cops patrolling. Very cool to explore though. Great video!
Girlfriend and i did some exploring there today. Not a soul living there today. We parked at the golf course to the west. There are about 5 houses there still. Everything is borded up. Houses and yards are amazing. Would have been incredible to live there. Girl and i kept talking about how nice and peaceful the small street may have been to live on.
i live near this area and explored it recently. about 2 or 3 of the houses in this video are now gone, every house on that street is now completely abandoned and just about every one is boarded and locked up. so interesting!
Awesome videos boss, really give a great insight into how luxurious and full of life these neighborhoods/mansions used to be, and seeing what they’re reduced to now. Truly sad… Keep up the great work!
Back then I had a friend who lived in Riverside (another suburb going down) and her father worked at Brookfield Zoo and he knew many of these people that were in the process of packing up to leave. At the time he told us (we were teens) we didn't think much about it. But later it thinking about it, was a sad ordeal. Imagine, losing all your hard-earned money, literally down the drain. But the only good thing about this was the time it happened and unlike now, most people bounced back; the were driven to not let that be a halt to their future, like today's society, unfortunately.
While it is sad what this neighborhood became, I can assure you that no one lost all their money on these properties. After one section was sold to a developer, many other parties became interested in the rest of the land. By that time, most owners were ready to sell. The state and the forest preserve paid good prices for the homes. The few who didn’t want to leave were offered a favorable rental agreement.
Today's society as you mentioned it is alot different to back then things arnt cheap as hell anymore housing is barley affordable my wife and I bot make 22.40 an hour and still struggle sometimes thats the problem with your generation you think were all lazy when the truth is most of us arnt lazy but we are being crushed to death by the inflation and trillions if dollars if debt that yiu and all the previous us generations left us to inherit so next time you wanna judge us think about that before you open your old mouth to judge us cause we're living with your generations mistakes were just doing the best we can with what you old asses left us to inherit so if you wanna be mad at someone be mad at your generation fir screwing us over we were in debt before we were even born thanks alot Grandpa
So sad and I grew up in Chicago and never knew about this situation. Devastating, but you're right...I wouldn't have thought much about it either, but now I totally feel the pain. Ugh, I can't imagine.
@@WeggieQueen2005 "...I grew up in Chicago and never knew about this situation." Perhaps you "never knew about this situation" because this place is NOT in Chicago. 🙄🙄
Dude, when you go into any of the building, you need to ware a N95 to protect yourself from black mold spores, Rat droppings and any air borne fungus. Don't touch anything with out disposable gloves on and wash your hand at the car before getting in. Some of the health effects from above can take months or even years to develop. Be safe : )
I was there on the bike 2 weeks ago. Still houses standing but no hazards or keep out signs, so I figured I was OK to look around. Never knew there was abandoned houses 2 miles from home all these years.
That's what I was thinking for the water being so toxic. Why is there so much vegetation there and it's still growing. Plus there's older trees that I'm pretty sure we're there before they even found out about the toxic water, that are obviously still there that are bigger and thriving. Im pretty sure of that and I'm sure the roots found any type of water that is available underground. That's just really weird and strange.
I think I may have seen this before, this is off of Western Ave, right? Quite a few areas in Chicagoland that were near industrial sites (especially south/western like Homewood and Blue Island) got depopulated from things like this.
Blue Island and Homewood isn’t bad, Harvey down the street on the other hand is like the new Detroit. Full abandoned housing projects and blocks. Btw this video is atleast like 30- hour away from what your thinking of.
I just can't comprehend how a community of top end higher class homes can lay dormant and empty without someone doing something, anything to bring them back to a liveable state of repair. Yes I'm all too well aware of big companies like Amazon, etc, buying up communities and farmland on order to erect their huge warehouses and distribution centres, for yes we have them here in the UK. I'd go so far as to say that due to a downturn in online shopping due to 'in part' the Covid Pandemic and the current financial depression, Amazon have closed several fulfilment centres here in the UK and ut makes you wonder what will become of these Super-warehouses. With the current numbers of people living on the streets and being homeless, what would it take/cost to renovate these homes and take people off the streets? Great content guys .. 🇬🇧
@@StringerMedia lol that's awesome! hit me up if your in my area Gary. Can't lie I've been searching online for that spot since I've watched your video.lol watched it 3 times! Great work! 💯
Question: Why tax citizens for the clean up? That's what happens when you want the govt. to do something. Owners and builders of the landfill need to be held responsible.
@@theirmom4723..and they were, I know under the Superfund Act. I'm in the consulting business in the west suburbs, but nvr saw this property, though familiar w the case. Co.s that sent chemicals for disposal sued by the EPA as well to pay for the "cleanup"
The only time anyone will abandon their property is if there’s something going on with the water or the environment is Toxic like a gas leak or the soil and water are contaminated 😮😮😮 something definitely happened there!
Ever Wonder Why all these houses that were worth something, even in disrepair, were closed off? But yet, Houses on South side, nastier than hell, still be livable 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Soooo many beautiful doors, windows, banisters, etc that could have been repurposed. Such a shame it was all left to be vandalized or demolished to add to the earth’s trash. 😡
There was a subdivision off of ciecro next to I-57 that all got torn down recently that was abandoned and me and my friends would go there to explore the houses
Where is this. I grew up near an area that was dumping VC for 18 years. Huge lawsuit prior to my diagnosis of GBM. People pretty much but boned or died.
@JdeC1994 eh, it's kinda weird how Chicago talks about stuff. Like "the suburbs of Chicago" or "a suburban Chicago neighborhood" it's all weird. Another thing is the county Chicago is located in, Cook County has a lot of smaller areas that get absorbed into Chicago over time, like around o'hare Airport. It's a mess here
@@michaelmorrison4201 How do you know that homeboy lives in the city? The O'Hare expansion is very exceptional. Other than that, Chicago's borders haven't been expanding for generations. 🙄🙄
Abandoned homes in riverside? Where? My gf and I explored every square foot of riverside ( atleast I thought we did). Such a cool town. Never found anything abandoned there.
@@killeruploadz9037 Riverside Lawn, IL unincorporated Cook County. There was a historic home built in 1899 that sat abandoned for awhile, until it burnt down in 2018. They've been trying to return the area to Forest Preserves for years.
What's the name of this suburb? I don't know. Third base. Seriously, there is no reason to omit the name of the suburb, if for no other reason so people will know where to stay away from.
Read some crazy stuff about the developers of this, If I think it's where it is, still fighting against prairie conservationist nearby. warm/cold, not 21st birthday but maybe off a birthday street a decade later?
It's funny. That land was not contaminated, just the water table under it. So, pipe in water from an outside source, or put in a modern local water plant with the new tech we have today to purify it. Not that hard at all now. Amazing that they condemned this much acreage. Some tech and finance saavy smart guy WILL achieve this in the future. I guarantee it. And it will be totally safe for the residents.
They did just that. City water was brought in when the chemicals were found in the wells. However, some residents still wanted to leave, and at the same time, multiple developers became interested in the property. Long story short, the property is almost all owned by the state and forest preserve to be an extension of the neighboring prairie. Houses should’ve been torn down years ago, but Illinois has bigger fish to fry.
NO! It's a groundwater issue.... Why would there be asbestos??? Too many unscientific alarmist types. People, PLEASE use our ubiquitous access to knowledge to actually learn things. smh.
Hi, why are there people still living around there if it's so toxic? It seems like they would have died from the Toxic fumes in the air n water!! That's weird. Don't make sense. And what about all the wild life? I heard birds chirping n singing. How are they alive because I'm pretty sure they would drink out of that nasty water. This is just so strange.
I was wondering the same thing about the poor birds. I'm sure there's still alot of people out there who don't care if wildlife is exposed to deadly toxins or not, as long as it doesn't affect themselves
This reminds me of when Ohare used eminent domain to evict ⅓ of Bensenville's residents for the new runway construction - fucked up to think airplanes are now landing on all of those memories - someone's first kiss, where someone buried the family dog/cat. Where someone's kids and grandkids grew up, drew their height charts on the wall etc etc.
They offered the residents pretty good $ at first but many declined. Over time ohare let the residential properties they owned get really dilapidated and overgrown, as a result more people would leave and so on and on and on. Eventually it looked like an episode of the walking dead in the neighborhood.
As far as the holdouts- welp the economy crashed and property values plummeted. Ohare then used eminent domain to remove the last few people and pay them market value (which was jack shit compared to what they were offered the 1st time).
I knew people in Bensonville that were forced out. They moved to NW Indiana.
But why would they stay though if the water was toxic?
@michellem7300 I am unaware of any water quality issues being linked to the O'Hare expansion. I've documented this case extensively while it was happening.
I don't understand how this reminds you of it, these are totally different situations.
it look liek pyschpath live their
Man...to imagine that the original people to "invest" in these properties took out loans for 100k-200k and then to have no choice but to walk away and abandon these places. It's absolutely criminal.
100-200k for 1980s would have been excessive?
@@mospeada1152uhm these are good sized lots as well as this used to be a country club so yes, these home probably went for AT LEAST $100k minimum.
I was shocked when another comment identified these homes as being in Westchester. Its been 60 years since I last walked back there, but I remember the area and those houses well. I grew up near there. The landfill mentioned was the old John Sexton limestone pits. Back in '55, they were dug for the gravel that built the adjacent Illinois toll road. Just to the east of these homes is open prairie that streetlights and fire hydrants can still be found spread out over the many acres of open prairie. Back in the 50's you could still see the outlines of streets that were never paved. The subdivision was started by Samuel Insul. My grandfather was a home builder and worked for him. The planned subdivision never got built, as Insul went bankrupt in '29. Unfortunately, he had sold most of the lots to new home buyers.The village of Westchester was developed by him. He was from England and wanted Westchester to be like the English village he grew up in. The lots were all 30' lot widths and never got built on, as building codes were changed after the war to a minimal 50' lot width to be buildable. So, the people that bought the lots just abandoned them. Those houses shown in this video all went up back in the 50's. It's no wonder their wells had water problems. They let everything under the sun be dumped in those deep gravel pits. Back in the summer of 1967 , my brother and I pushed a 1956 Chevy Belair convertible into the open pit. We watched as a bulldozer plowed it under. Once in a while as I drive down 31st street, past those houses, I think about that old '56 ragtop , still rusting away at the bottom of that pit, which is a pine tree covered hill today.
That's an absolutely incredible story you just gave me. I wish I could add this to my video! Times have changed. Love this comment, thank you
You know the strange thing about that you're absolutely right where it is. When ya turn off and you drive down HL while most of the houses are abandoned there still some people back there and one or two of them still living there I was amazed to see that.
Knowing the dangers that under the ground to which is crazy.
Why did you push a car down a gravel pit though, why didn't you just sell it?🤔
@davidlarson9975 oh ok, thanks for all that information, and cool story! Lol
@@StringerMediaso what happened in the neighbor hood
This is probably what’s going to happen to the people who live in East Palestine Ohio
Agreed
Still safer than San Francisco.
💯 what I was just thinking. Sad.
I don't live far from east Palestine Ohio and they are cleaning it up very good
@@Tankeryanker1994 they may clean the top soil but if it's leatched into the wells/aquifer then all in the area will be effected and possibly eventually told to leave. Unless you own the land you live on which most do not.
It’s a weirdly heart wrenching feeling seeing a neighborhood that used to be full of life just abandoned. I wish I knew the backstories of all the houses and the ones who lived there.
I grew up near this neighborhood and went to high school with a couple of people that lived there. I knew the people that lived in the house @ 2:14 of the video during the late '60s. I visited many times. It was a beautiful home back then. The owners sold in 1969 due to relocation out of state. Nobody knew back then that they would have a toxic landfill in their backyard.
Where is this at?
@@eadsinstrumentsllc Westchester
@@raysvoboda9391thanks
I grew up pretty close to this. A lot of my friends got weird rare cancers in Highschool, come to find out we had the second most toxic landfill in america getting into the water. If you don’t believe me look it up! Near Wauconda Illinois
Is the site at Bonner and Garland next to Berger construction?
I'll remember not to look at buying a house in Wauconda
This needs to happen to Satellite Beach Florida. People there have higher rates of cancer and it’s just swept under the rug. There were toxic waste dumps there that were just built over, yet no one does anything. I found maps of the waste sites on the internet a long time ago but can’t find them anymore.
I bet someone high up deleted those old maps, so years down the line developers can say, we didn't know anything about toxic waste there. The high ups go hmm that waste magically disappeared.
I was just about to ask what’s the link for that map, but then I finished reading your sentence lol
That is no country club - that was a house. Really sad what happened to that neighborhood. I used to maintain one of the properties.
What about toxic water? Can you elaborate?
@@rev.tommiestovall7541 There was a landfill directly west of the properties. The landfill was not properly built. Vinyl chloride was found to have gone from the landfill into the water wells of the homes. A water line was constructed in the late 80s providing city water to the houses, but people still ended up leaving.
@@cpetro that's crazy that you maintained one of the properties. I'm jealous
@@StringerMedia I'd be happy to share some further details on the neighborhood if you're interested.
@@cpetro tell us anything you’d like
I am certain that the mortgage companies still went after these homeowners. Despicable. Hope you guys came out safe and healthy. Thank-You for sharing.
I doubt it. They only go after black people with that shit
If they owe the money they owe the money.
@@Kanamit. Exactly.
@@Kanamit. Not true. With an environmental disaster, either the homeowner or the banks are compensated and required to quit the property. It isn't an option. Either the state or federal government buys them out. Even without that, any mortgage holder can give the keys back to the bank and walk away from the property.
I had no idea abandoned neighborhoods were this close to me
I am thinking it’s near I-294. Just a guess. It probably would shock people how much abandoned property is in our country. Good video!
Thanks. U should probably edit that comment with the location because people will vandalize it
KG- I’ve explored two of those houses you went in about a year ago. Be careful because it’s a “private drive” down that street and I’ve seen cops patrolling. Very cool to explore though.
Great video!
Much appreciated
where is this at? I live In Joliet.
And why do you think cops are there after all thus time THE GOVERNMENT LIES THEY ARE UP TO SOMETHING TRUST ME
Had no idea that was there and I live 10 minutes from there. Well done.
Where is it ?
@@butterball1000 for real I live I joliet and I wanna know
anyone find out where it is?
This could be hickory lane in Westchester off 31 - there was a contamination of vinyl chloride to their wells back in ‘87.
@@Boilerball1120 facts
Chicagoan here...5th generation I might add, and I never knew this. Thanks for the info.
Maybe you "never knew this" because this place is NOT in Chicago. 🙄🙄
Yes it is. Hickory Lane in Westchester, Chicago. Right down from 31st Street and running parallel to the 294/ Toll Road
Girlfriend and i did some exploring there today. Not a soul living there today. We parked at the golf course to the west. There are about 5 houses there still. Everything is borded up. Houses and yards are amazing. Would have been incredible to live there. Girl and i kept talking about how nice and peaceful the small street may have been to live on.
yo where do i find it? like what’s an address? gonna go today if u can reply fast lol
@@randomvids2837yo delete this comment. People like to vandalize.
Omg you are brave going in that house alone 😮
This is really sad. It looks like my old house from when I was little.
It's so sad for the people who were forced to leave their homes.
i live near this area and explored it recently. about 2 or 3 of the houses in this video are now gone, every house on that street is now completely abandoned and just about every one is boarded and locked up. so interesting!
Awesome videos boss, really give a great insight into how luxurious and full of life these neighborhoods/mansions used to be, and seeing what they’re reduced to now. Truly sad… Keep up the great work!
Much appreciated!
Nature certainly reclaims its own.
I'm somewhat surprised the large glass pane toward the end was still intact!
Back then I had a friend who lived in Riverside (another suburb going down) and her father worked at Brookfield Zoo and he knew many of these people that were in the process of packing up to leave. At the time he told us (we were teens) we didn't think much about it. But later it thinking about it, was a sad ordeal. Imagine, losing all your hard-earned money, literally down the drain. But the only good thing about this was the time it happened and unlike now, most people bounced back; the were driven to not let that be a halt to their future, like today's society, unfortunately.
While it is sad what this neighborhood became, I can assure you that no one lost all their money on these properties. After one section was sold to a developer, many other parties became interested in the rest of the land. By that time, most owners were ready to sell. The state and the forest preserve paid good prices for the homes. The few who didn’t want to leave were offered a favorable rental agreement.
Today's society as you mentioned it is alot different to back then things arnt cheap as hell anymore housing is barley affordable my wife and I bot make 22.40 an hour and still struggle sometimes thats the problem with your generation you think were all lazy when the truth is most of us arnt lazy but we are being crushed to death by the inflation and trillions if dollars if debt that yiu and all the previous us generations left us to inherit so next time you wanna judge us think about that before you open your old mouth to judge us cause we're living with your generations mistakes were just doing the best we can with what you old asses left us to inherit so if you wanna be mad at someone be mad at your generation fir screwing us over we were in debt before we were even born thanks alot Grandpa
So sad and I grew up in Chicago and never knew about this situation. Devastating, but you're right...I wouldn't have thought much about it either, but now I totally feel the pain. Ugh, I can't imagine.
Riverside is in wonderful shape. North riverside different story
@@WeggieQueen2005 "...I grew up in Chicago and never knew about this situation."
Perhaps you "never knew about this situation" because this place is NOT in Chicago. 🙄🙄
Great content man. As someone who grew up in the Western Burbs, it’s interesting to see local sites!
Dude, when you go into any of the building, you need to ware a N95 to protect yourself from black mold spores, Rat droppings and any air borne fungus. Don't touch anything with out disposable gloves on and wash your hand at the car before getting in. Some of the health effects from above can take months or even years to develop. Be safe : )
Can someone please tell me what's the name of this suburb
I was there on the bike 2 weeks ago. Still houses standing but no hazards or keep out signs, so I figured I was OK to look around. Never knew there was abandoned houses 2 miles from home all these years.
Creepy and beautiful in one frame. Thanks you 👍
Considering the water is toxic there is plenty of greenery around and plenty of trees the water doesn't seem to kill them off .
That's what I was thinking for the water being so toxic. Why is there so much vegetation there and it's still growing. Plus there's older trees that I'm pretty sure we're there before they even found out about the toxic water, that are obviously still there that are bigger and thriving. Im pretty sure of that and I'm sure the roots found any type of water that is available underground. That's just really weird and strange.
Because roots filter out most of the toxic chemicals.
Not safe for drinking consumption, though.....
Toxic for humans, but the greenery is spectacular and thriving.
I think I may have seen this before, this is off of Western Ave, right? Quite a few areas in Chicagoland that were near industrial sites (especially south/western like Homewood and Blue Island) got depopulated from things like this.
Are you kidding? Homewood?
Homewood or Blue Island never looked like it was depopulated. You ok?.
What are you talking about. Homewood is bustling?
Blue Island and Homewood isn’t bad, Harvey down the street on the other hand is like the new Detroit. Full abandoned housing projects and blocks. Btw this video is atleast like 30- hour away from what your thinking of.
It's not. But if I tell you, I'm afraid you will go and I don't want you exposed to Vinyl Chloride. This chemical killed my uncle through cancer.
I just can't comprehend how a community of top end higher class homes can lay dormant and empty without someone doing something, anything to bring them back to a liveable state of repair. Yes I'm all too well aware of big companies like Amazon, etc, buying up communities and farmland on order to erect their huge warehouses and distribution centres, for yes we have them here in the UK. I'd go so far as to say that due to a downturn in online shopping due to 'in part' the Covid Pandemic and the current financial depression, Amazon have closed several fulfilment centres here in the UK and ut makes you wonder what will become of these Super-warehouses.
With the current numbers of people living on the streets and being homeless, what would it take/cost to renovate these homes and take people off the streets?
Great content guys .. 🇬🇧
The ground is polluted, that’s the problem.
@@ryanlantz8258 I think we need to be more specific. The soil is fine. Issue is water table.
Average houses in Villa Park
This looks like it would have been an awesome place to live
Great video keep on with the videos
I noticed that every episode of Scooby Doo had a villain that was trying to scare people off the land.
🤣
"...and I would have gotten away with it, too... if it weren't for you meddling industrial waste managers!!"
What a waste…….. must be hard walking away from such a beautiful neighborhood
This is sad! I hope things get better. Objectively
great upload! id love to go do some photography there
Thanks homie, I been seeing your sticker everywhere even locally. Keep at it dawg
@@StringerMedia lol that's awesome! hit me up if your in my area Gary. Can't lie I've been searching online for that spot since I've watched your video.lol watched it 3 times! Great work! 💯
DM me for location
@@StrangePlaces what’s the location
@@StrangePlaces where is it
The government needs to clean up that nabourhood immediately and detox the nabourhood and the water system so people can move back in
Question: Why tax citizens for the clean up? That's what happens when you want the govt. to do something. Owners and builders of the landfill need to be held responsible.
"Neighborhood"
@@theirmom4723..and they were, I know under the Superfund Act. I'm in the consulting business in the west suburbs, but nvr saw this property, though familiar w the case. Co.s that sent chemicals for disposal sued by the EPA as well to pay for the "cleanup"
I really wish Illinois and sT Louis were better about not vandalizing things
I’d love to go door to door, just to salvage and recycle anything. The ground water’s toxic, not the rain.
Fifty thousand people used to live here. Now it's a ghost town.
Nice 👍 one lad
The only time anyone will abandon their property is if there’s something going on with the water or the environment is Toxic like a gas leak or the soil and water are contaminated 😮😮😮 something definitely happened there!
Ever Wonder Why all these houses that were worth something, even in disrepair, were closed off? But yet, Houses on South side, nastier than hell, still be livable 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
West Chicago, IL is radioactive
With all the old nuclear power plants in the region, yeah
Just explored it today and they are tearing down the bigger homes sadly.
Is this McCullolm lake
For a community to be abandoned that long, you would expect the grass to be super high. Is someone maintaining the area?
One house has been abandoned recently and the other is lived in. The rest are very grown out
Soooo many beautiful doors, windows, banisters, etc that could have been repurposed. Such a shame it was all left to be vandalized or demolished to add to the earth’s trash. 😡
There was a subdivision off of ciecro next to I-57 that all got torn down recently that was abandoned and me and my friends would go there to explore the houses
Should have let me know dawg that's crazy
Where?
154th and Western in Harvey is a good area to check out abandoned shit. Just watch out for cops and thugs lol
So eerie and sad. I'm wondering if they got any money back to start over.
Where is this. I grew up near an area that was dumping VC for 18 years. Huge lawsuit prior to my diagnosis of GBM. People pretty much but boned or died.
What's vc if I may ask
Vinyl chloride
What does your last sentence mean
What is GBM?
@@theirmom4723 Glioblastoma multiform.
Incurable Brain Cancer.
Where is this neighborhood? More specifically, what’s the name of this neighborhood and where in Chicago can it be found?
"...what's the name of this neighborhood and where in Chicago can it be found?"
You won't find it in Chicago because it's NOT in Chicago! 🙄🙄
Is this the Crestwood area in Cook County?
Why can’t anyone seem to tell us where exactly this is?
not hard to find
These seemed to be relatively upscale subdivisions. So sad.
People still live back there. It's near Oakbrook. I deliver there lol.
Need to invest in a good pair of boots..
Where is this?
It's the ? no body seems to answer because most don't really know or nvr been there
the intro song was a bop
Ngl…I checked this place out this past weekend. That house with the alarm had been busted wide open.
Which suburb is this, and what location??
He won't tell you because he doesn't want you to go.
Vinyl Chloride? Yikesssss!
Where in Chicago is this? I've lived here my whole life and never knew about this
I believe it's Crestwood.
@@SawbuckMike its not in crestwood
"Where in Chicago is this?"
If it's in the suburbs, then how can it be in Chicago? 🙄🙄
@JdeC1994 eh, it's kinda weird how Chicago talks about stuff. Like "the suburbs of Chicago" or "a suburban Chicago neighborhood" it's all weird. Another thing is the county Chicago is located in, Cook County has a lot of smaller areas that get absorbed into Chicago over time, like around o'hare Airport. It's a mess here
@@michaelmorrison4201 How do you know that homeboy lives in the city?
The O'Hare expansion is very exceptional. Other than that, Chicago's borders haven't been expanding for generations. 🙄🙄
This is dope how can we connect I would rehab all those places and Airbnb them out 😂 no frfr I buy abandoned property
Would have been cool
To see the newspaper in the last clip. ❤
I found the last house kinda neat.
Badass is this by Lagrange or Riverside? There's alot of random abandoned houses in the woods around there.
Warm
Abandoned homes in riverside? Where? My gf and I explored every square foot of riverside ( atleast I thought we did). Such a cool town. Never found anything abandoned there.
@@killeruploadz9037 interesting
@@killeruploadz9037 Riverside Lawn, IL unincorporated Cook County. There was a historic home built in 1899 that sat abandoned for awhile, until it burnt down in 2018.
They've been trying to return the area to Forest Preserves for years.
What's the name of this suburb?
I don't know.
Third base.
Seriously, there is no reason to omit the name of the suburb, if for no other reason so people will know where to stay away from.
Oh just like what just happened in Ohio, massive vinal chloride spill
I pray that you don't get sick hope you have your mask on
Won't go in the basement because you're worried about structural integrity.... but you go UPSTAIRS?!
Read some crazy stuff about the developers of this, If I think it's where it is, still fighting against prairie conservationist nearby. warm/cold, not 21st birthday but maybe off a birthday street a decade later?
Looks like a scene from the last of us.😳
How’s the water toxic and the plants growing ?
you should grab that early 60s cub cadet rider
2:23 a college fraternity house for sure
This is so sad that this happened to all those people what became if them I hope they didnt get ill has a result of living there god bless the all
Sorry you didn't find Cameron's dad's Ferrari... :{
Huh
Ferris Bueller (friend’s dad own the Ferrari)
FUCK DUDE WHERE DID YOU GUYS COME FROM, layout of the video makes me nervous to get in the house. Took me back to some memories thank you.
It's funny. That land was not contaminated, just the water table under it. So, pipe in water from an outside source, or put in a modern local water plant with the new tech we have today to purify it. Not that hard at all now. Amazing that they condemned this much acreage.
Some tech and finance saavy smart guy WILL achieve this in the future. I guarantee it. And it will be totally safe for the residents.
They did just that. City water was brought in when the chemicals were found in the wells. However, some residents still wanted to leave, and at the same time, multiple developers became interested in the property. Long story short, the property is almost all owned by the state and forest preserve to be an extension of the neighboring prairie. Houses should’ve been torn down years ago, but Illinois has bigger fish to fry.
What's the background music
What neighborhood is this?
Plenty of flourishing plant life with such toxic water...makes ya think😊
Any time you come across random news papers in these places , read the headline. Ads to the time capsule aspect of your exploring
Whats the song you used at the end of the vid?
If they don't get Beetlejuice outta there thats what all of its gonna look like
Did Beetlejuice move to a SUBURB, then become the mayor there? 🙄🙄
Would you tell me where is it.
Did they get paid to move because something was put in the ground? I WONDER? I would buy one now and get a water system put in. Crazy.
perfect squatting opportunity.
Where is this, I would love to look around
Where? In Chicago
I live in Chicagoland that’s why I’m asking
Suburbs are OUTSIDE of cities! 🙄🙄
Aren't you scared to breathe in some of these places? There must be so much dust, asbestos, etc.
There is. I wear a mask if there's no open windows
NO! It's a groundwater issue.... Why would there be asbestos??? Too many unscientific alarmist types. People, PLEASE use our ubiquitous access to knowledge to actually learn things. smh.
I thought they were going to redevelop that area again.
Into burial plots for efficiency
Forest preserve expansion to the west
@77chevy4x4 you got me thinking about zombies 😂🤣
Airco golf (was landfill) then I -294
Life after People
Have you ever encountered property owners or homeless people or squatters
I've encountered owners
Unreal..... SURreal.....
Hi, why are there people still living around there if it's so toxic? It seems like they would have died from the Toxic fumes in the air n water!! That's weird. Don't make sense. And what about all the wild life? I heard birds chirping n singing. How are they alive because I'm pretty sure they would drink out of that nasty water. This is just so strange.
Carcinogens. Kills you over decades.
Just like a woman to have such a dumb question.
@@jessedukowitz6267 are you kidding me? Grow up
@@StringerMedia why would you heart that rude comment?
I was wondering the same thing about the poor birds. I'm sure there's still alot of people out there who don't care if wildlife is exposed to deadly toxins or not, as long as it doesn't affect themselves
Look to see year of newspaper.
How did it get toxic ...hmmmm