Urban explorers capture stunning images amid rust belt ruin. But are they also urban exploiters?
by Edward McClelland
Saint Laurence Catholic Church, which began its life at 71st and Dorchester as a monument to God, is ending it as a monument to white flight. Built in 1911 for the Irish of the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood, the church began to empty out in the 1950s, and was finally deconsecrated in 2002; the mostly Protestant blacks who had moved into the neighborhood couldn't provide the members or the money to keep it open.…[ Read more ]