STOCKYARDS INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX — Vacant for decades, the Stock Yards Bank building is primed for a makeover, one aldermanic candidate says.
Patrick Daley Thompson has released plans to convert the city-owned building at 4146 S. Halsted St. into a two-story banquet hall, museum and restaurant.
The building's first floor would be converted to a restaurant, which could also make use of the large square footage with a banquet hall. On the second story, a museum would pay homage to the city's history as "hog butcher for the world" as immortalized in Carl Sandburg's poem.
On this DNAinfo Radio Extra, Casey Cora discusses why private developers haven't tackled the project yet, and how much the proposal would cost:
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