A trip up Princeton Ave. through the Fuller Pk. neighborhood from 47th to 41st. Yes, that's Sears Tower in the background.

Turning west on 41st St., we dive under the Berlin Wall into Canaryville, heading toward the former Union Stockyards. (The site is now Stockyards Industrial Park.) The building with the spire at Halsted that looks like Independence Hall was formerly the Stockyards Bank. It's boarded up now. It and the stone gate are the only remnants of an operation that once covered 16 square blocks.

A few small meatpackers are still left, but that's about it.

On the way back, we look at some new homes going up on Emerald just east of Halsted before heading back east on 43rd St under the Berlin Wall.

That huge-ass billboard is designed to be seen from the Dan Ryan Expressway. Our tour ends with a jaunt down Wells St. back in my neighborhood. That guy in the orange-brick house at the end is living very dangerously. (less info)