[in person or remote] Public Meeting: Damen Silos

2800 S Western Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60608 Chicago, IL 60608 (Directions)

Arturo Velazquez Institute

You have the option to document this meeting in person or remotely, though we recommend you go in person as the remote audio/visual quality is often not great for new or one-off hybrid meetings.

If you choose to attend in person, an additional hour will be added to your total assignment hours. You may be asked to provide government-issued photo ID and to go through a metal detector.

If you choose to document remotely, we expect that the meeting will be streamed via Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/ChiPublicHealth). The live stream should appear at that link, at the top of the feed, though it may not appear until at or a few minutes after the scheduled start time. If you don’t see it right away, wait a few moments and refresh the webpage, repeating until the video appears.

If you don’t see the video by 5 minutes after the scheduled start time, let us know via a reply to this assignment’s email.

More context:

• Official description: Please join the City of Chicago for a public meeting regarding the Damen Silos. Topics to be covered include safe demolition, oversight, dust control measures, and environmental and health protections, as an environmentally complex demolition that will not be a demolition by implosion.
• Chicago Sun-Times: Damen Silos Demolition Meeting Scheduled for August 22
• City webpage about complex demolitions
• North by Northwestern: The Story of the Silos, as Told through Explosions

Check the source website for additional information