CHICAGO (CBS) – Residents of an eight-story apartment building in Hyde Park have been experiencing a weekslong nightmare due to having no elevator service. Since July, coming and going has meant a ...

The Fine Arts Building on South Michigan Avenue is a living museum where art is displayed and made behind every door on every floor. It's home to the Studebaker Theater, which began as a showroom for ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two workers were rescued Monday morning after they became trapped high in the air in an elevator outside a Chicago silo. At about 8 a.m., Chicago firefighters were called out to the ...

Larry Brooks is a senior citizen who needs a wheelchair to get around, and who goes to dialysis multiple times a week. But the only elevator in Brooks' condo in the southwest Chicago suburb of Oak ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A 21-year-old man died after being found shot inside a residential high-rise elevator in the South Shore neighborhood, Chicago police said. Officers responded to the high-rise in the ...

Three hours after plunging 84 floors, six people were freed from a broken elevator in the former John Hancock Center, WBBM reported. A hoist rope broke just after midnight Friday morning, sending the ...

Nineteenth-century “elevator buildings” were mystifying places, on the report of the grandmother of Rochelle Elstein, one of three curators behind the Northwestern University Library’s exhibit “The ...

One of Chicago's last manual elevator operators understands the novelty of his 'office' in the famous Fine Arts Building. "It has its ups and downs," Brian joked about the job. He said he wound up ...

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