Exploring Chicago's Most Elegant Abandoned Bank

Someone drop the exact location

Well, what's the address?

Damn... Please be careful! this constitutes breaking and entering. Cheers, Dick from Vancouver.

When the banks take as much money as they do from Americans sure they can just let it root no problem.

I know exactly were that bank is will not say the coronation’s pass thru their to many times.🤘😎

Looks really silent Hill to me. Especially the security boxes. Kept waiting for him to find a damn health drink! Or at least a box handgun bullets for pyramid head waiting by the elevator shaft for you!

Cosmetic columns would have iron / steel inside them (much thinner), but certainly a column.
They have to support that large clearspan room.

Lesley, please, please, please be extremely careful around the electrical hookup you slipped under... at the 25 sec mark.
I know stories of people having their arm vaporized from touching live hook-ups in Chicago. That's best case.

Wow braking into a bank,imagine getting a rested &having a record lol!

Is very interesting now I know how is a bank inside

Such a historical place must be restored. Amazing! Great to hear there is a new investor who plans to rebuilt it.

Incredible exploration 💥

Wahou le coffre fort la porte est un mastodon...oh la vue sur Chicago !!! Merci à vous ....soyez prudents c'est dangereux...la salle des coffres, la porte est encore plus grosse !!! Il y en a des milliers de petits coffres... merci pour votre travail...

Vandals need to get a life. Nobody cares about your "art" work.

Yep. Those tables were to write checks, CODs - they had them back in the day. Not sure about nowadays.

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...great exploration! 👍🙋🏻🍀

Those are not fake columns! They have huge steel I-beams inside that holds up the steel skeleton, if you will, that makes up the main framing and support for the whole building they have foundations deep in the basement that are sitting in the cement many feet into the ground and that is how you have the main lobby of the bank that's open with no columns sports in the middle because it's all held up by huge steel beams going up and across the ceiling ( that is a heck of a run on sentence )

The desks were probably for writing deposit and withdrawal slips etc

That is Pulaski and North avenue. Right in the heart of Humboldt Park.

Really cool explorations!
Flann from Maine, at the Velha Caldiera pools

The city approved $13 million to restore this building and turn it into a community center (main floor) with office space (on the upper floors and basement)

I wonder if anything was left behind in those lock boxes 🤔

I live in Chicago was like "yaay I wanna go explore the bank too!"
And then I saw the climbing and scaling of walls and said "Uh-Uh."

1920s West Humboldt Park Bank Could Be Brought Back To Life As Community Center, Affordable Housing Under City Plan
The building has been vacant for 13 years.

The Great Chicago Flood of 1992 sent water into the basement of buildings throughout downtown, causing $2 billion in damage. They knew this wasn't a normal water main break when they saw fish swimming in it. (I got this from google)

Your getting even better with your back stories & telling us the history of the places. I love that your improving and pushing your investigations even further. And I'm so glad you've made it over to our little continent! 😉Thanks Leslie. 👍😊

The whole Chicago Police thing scared the crap out me when there was alarms I thought you were caught 🤣

That's why they'll never get rid of banks can I have a safety deposit box on your computer or your phone

They'll never get rid of banks not everybody wants to do things online cuz the government always up your nose

They will never get rid of banks

I'm pretty sure what you are doing has a name it's called burglary man climbing through power lines like that you don't know if there's juice in them or not stupid people will always weed themselves out

The roundtables are for deposit slips withdrawal slips and you fill it out there and you bring it to the teller

Why do not convert it to be the shelter for the homeless?

The box on the wall you thought was a vacuum chute for money, Is actually an air supply in the event you got locked in the safe. I've decommissioned a couple of large banks very similar to this.

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Thank God ALL these central bankers banks will be shut down after NESARA/GESARA is implemented. Then we will be free as you've never been free before! Soon

The Photo reminds me of fallout 4

Thank you sooooo much for that tour, my heart was so excited, it truly was the best bank I EVER saw. I love that you do this, and with such love you do it, thank you. ❤️🙏

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CUltUrAL hUB & sOcIaL HoUsInG. Would rather see it burned to the ground than converted to a cathedral for the homeless industrial complex.

I wonder if there is any thing left in the deposit boxes, surely if people died other people may not have know what the key was for

Everything is faster now days... but is it realy better?

Nice😀

thank you guys, it was epic, good job!

It seems a sinagogue.

The P in the safe deposit sign for the banks name.

An excellent marvelous Structure Should be evaluated.

Banks becoming community houses is a good thing. Now let’s work on turning government buildings into museums of failed attempts to rule.