Chicago Loop Explosion, Van Buren Street and Firefighters Photo Archive, “looking down on nothing where a three-story building stood,” March 2, 1947
Chicago Loop press photographs documenting the March 2, 1947 explosion and fire at 203 West Van Buren Street. The photographs record the aftermath of the blast zone from street level and from above, showing firefighters working through smoke, rubble, twisted trackside debris, shattered buildings, and waterlogged streets beneath the elevated.....