Friday Flashback: The Ol' Post Office

(Katherine Raz / BackGarage)

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Someone's pockets are $40 million lighter this morning, and if the unnamed buyer of the old Post Office, straddling the Eisenhower, has any buyers remorse, they're not telling anyone. For the rest of us, all we can do is watch the calendar and wait for this anonymous developer to roll up the bulldozers and truck in the slot machines. (If, that is, the inevitable Chicago casino doesn't go to Navy Pier - both scenarios lay even odds with the Chicagoist bookmakers.)

A while back, Katherine Raz of BackGarage took a wander through the property and reported back on the runup to the auction for our pals at Gapers Block. Since we're suckers for things like urban exploration and abandoned places and the like, we thought we'd point your attention towards a few more of her photos, and revel in the art-deco emptiness.