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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Lee Bey

City and community seek new life for historic former industrial park

A vacant Central Manufacturing District building at 1867 W. Pershing Road was once the U.S. Army Quartermasters Depot. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Make a list of the city’s most historically important places and the buildings of the old Central Manufacturing District in the McKinley Park neighborhood probably wouldn’t make the cut.

But they should. We’d be a different city had it not been for the CMD, among the country’s first industrial parks.

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