Exploring Chicago’s Most Elegant Abandoned Bank

Exploring abandoned places is my hobby and finance it all out of my own pocket and the donations I get from the people who love watching the documentaries we make... A small donation would be greatly appreciated! ► Check out Danny his channel @ Our journey brings us to a rather peculiar place, in the heart of Chicago’s suburbs we found a completely intact bank that has been abandoned since the year 2008. Karl Vitzthum, the architect, decided to give the building a Classical Revival-style design to convey a sense of security and permanence. Many newspapers called the bank “Chicago’s most elegant bank“ when it was finished in 1926. The five-story building cost about $650,000, which is about 11 million dollars today. For many years, it served the local community in this Chicago neighborhood. Families would come here to do all kinds of banking activities, but most of the stories you still hear ar