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    • [JRP] 2016? - Duration: 13 seconds.

      • 1 month ago
      • 135 views
      Intro prototype. Needs more imperfections.

    • Your Couch - Duration: 4 minutes, 59 seconds.

      • 2 months ago
      • 192 views
      ...fuck it.

    • #LostWauk - Exploring the F. Sauter Building - Duration: 6 minutes, 9 seconds.

      • 2 months ago
      • 345 views
      Exploring the upper floors of Waukegan's 1894-built F. Sauter Building, on the corner of Genesee and Water Street. Home to Stern's Store for Men for nearly a century, the building's apartments were...

    • Adios, Ambassadors - Duration: 5 minutes, 21 seconds.

      • 2 months ago
      • 142 views
      Wandering Gary's Ambassador Apartments for the last time this past summer. The tallest abandonment in the city at the time, and probably one of the worst in decay; after 30 years of abandonment, th...

    • The Evil Wyoming Dead Incident? - Duration: 35 seconds.

      • 2 months ago
      • 415 views
      I'm working on a video that will put this into context, but basically I adapted imagery from The Wyoming Incident into a Halloween display.

      This was the A/V for it; I piped it out to a projector,...

    • Grayslake Tornado Damage; 8/3/2015 - Duration: 6 minutes, 19 seconds.

      • 5 months ago
      • 1,584 views
      Aftermath of a surprise EF-1 tornado (winds 86-110mph) that touched down near Round Lake, and moved 7.5mi through Grayslake and Gages Lake on the night of August 2, 2015. Video shows damage to area...

    • Waukegan SCOOP 2014 - Duration: 18 minutes.

      • 7 months ago
      • 641 views
      Waukegan's legendary car show - historically known as Scoop-the-Loop - returns to Genesee Street in the form of a two-day hot rod holiday simply called "SCOOP".

      Combining for the first time the o...

    • Waukegan SCOOP 2014 (B-Roll) - Duration: 38 minutes.

      • 7 months ago
      • 84 views
      Raw, unedited footage from the annual Waukegan SCOOP, July 11-12, 2014. A shorter, more user-friendly cut will be released, soon.

      For media/commercial use; please visit: www.jonrev.com/contact .

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    • Party Hard - Duration: 2 minutes, 34 seconds.

      • 11 months ago
      • 346 views
      Just a short with some time-lapse footage.

      The city parties while an old building on the corner awaits death...

    • Crap: Geronimo... - Duration: 14 seconds.

      • 1 year ago
      • 64 views
      Lonely Chair Death Squad... coming soon to an abandonment near you.

    • Gary Sheraton rooftop - Duration: 2 minutes.

      • 1 year ago
      • 410 views
      A mild breeze? Let me play you the song of my people.......

      A now-extinct view of downtown Gary, IN; from arguably the city's biggest eyesore. Opened as a Holiday Inn in 1968, and already dead by ...

    • Crap: MackyD's - Duration: 30 seconds.

      • 1 year ago
      • 357 views
      Disgusting fact of the day: if the building remains untouched, it will probably collapse before those fries start to decay. You ever see McDonald's fries decompose? Neither have I...

      Also: graff.
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    Once-located in the Chicago suburb of Harvey; Dixie Square is perhaps the most famous shopping mall that ever existed. It was the original "dead mall", having been abandoned for more than three decades after only 12 years of operation, and was one of Chicago's most popular urban exploration destinations at the beginning of the new millennium.

    Built from 1965-1966, Dixie Square was anchored by Penneys, Wards, and later expanded to include a discount department store called Turnstyle, topping out at over 800,000 sq.ft. of enclosed, 72* year-round shopping pleasure. Unfortunately, it was also built during an untimely demographics shift in Harvey which quickly sent the mall into a death spiral amidst a skyrocketing crime rate. After several murders in and around the center, along with various other incidents, tenants quickly fled to safer malls nearby, and ultimately Dixie Square was completely empty and boarded up by early 1979.

    Later that year, Dixie Square re-opened for eight weeks... at least it looked like it. The mall was renovated and "dressed" back to life during filming of the 1980 cult-favorite "The Blues Brothers", in which the Bluesmobile and Illinois State Police cars wreaked havoc around and inside the center, causing major damage that was for the most-part never repaired. Following Hollywood's brief stint, the mall was used as a temporary school until 1981, then left to stand and rot away.

    After further murders, fires, and one botched redevelopment after another; some demolition finally began (illegally) in late-2005 into 2006 but quickly halted, leaving huge portions of the mall wide-open to the elements. By this point, though, Dixie Square had quickly become a photographer's haven as hundreds came from all across the world to infiltrate and explore its massive ruins. The rest of the mall was finally demolished in 2012.

    From 2009 through 2011, I consistently visited and documented the structure while digging further into its troubled history. These videos were taken on my ten ventures inside Dixie Square's ruins, and during its demolition in early 2012.
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