Demolition has begun on a historic downtown building two decades after a stampede at the dance club it housed left 21 dead and nearly five dozen injured.

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Demolition begins on former Chicago nightclub where stampede killed 21

Demolition has begun on a historic downtown building two decades after a stampede at the dance club it housed left 21 dead and nearly five dozen injured

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CHICAGO (AP) — Demolition has begun on a historic downtown building two decades after a stampede at the dance club it housed left 21 dead and nearly five dozen injured. A crew moved in Tuesday after last week’s emergency demolition order by the Chicago Department of Buildings. That followed a Nov. 7 ruling by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks that denied the building owner’s application to tear it down. It opened in 1910 as an automobile showr…

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CHICAGO (AP) — Demolition has begun on a historic downtown building two decades after a stampede at the dance club it housed left 21 dead and nearly five dozen injured.  A demolition crew moved in Tuesday after last week’s emergency demolition order by the Chicago Department of Buildings, which declared the 114-year-old structure “constitutes an actual and imminent danger to the public,” according to local news reports.  That followed a Nov. 7 r…

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Demolition began Tuesday on the nearly 115-year-old Near South Side building that formerly housed the E2 Nightclub, where 21 people died in a stampede in 2003. City officials last month issued an emergency order to demolish the two-story building at 2347 S. Michigan Ave., which has been vacant since the tragedy, following inspections that found the building was unsafe. The order runs contrary to the Commission on Chicago Landmarks’ denial of the 

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In an abrupt reversal, city officials have ruled that the building that housed the E2 nightclub should be demolished on an emergency basis.

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Site of E2 nightclub stampede tragedy to be demolished

CHICAGO — A 124-year-old building built as an auto showroom and that previously housed the E2 nightclub, where 21 people died in 2003, has begun to meet the wrecking ball.  Crews were seen Tuesday at the building at 2347 S. Michigan Ave., along the historic Motor Row national register district, beginning the demolition process. A spokesperson with the Department of Buildings said the building was ordered to be demolished "on an emergency basis" …

Demolition begins on former Chicago nightclub where stampede killed 21

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