Old Main Post Office on Brink of Transformation
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The building that thousands of cars drive under every day will be turned into commercial o
It was going to be a casino. It was going to be the site of a new group of towers, some of the tallest in the country, on the western shore of the Chicago River. It was going to be turned into 1,500 micro-apartments. There were reports that Walgreens was going to make it their corporate headquarters. And now it seems Chicago’s old main post office on Congress is destined to be commercial office sp
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Old Main Post Office on Brink of Transformation
Clip: 8/1/2016 | 9m 33sVideo has Closed Captions
It was going to be a casino. It was going to be the site of a new group of towers, some of the tallest in the country, on the western shore of the Chicago River. It was going to be turned into 1,500 micro-apartments. There were reports that Walgreens was going to make it their corporate headquarters. And now it seems Chicago’s old main post office on Congress is destined to be commercial office sp
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