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greenman999
     
Location: Dallas, Texas
Gender: Male
I am a curious man, that is why I climbed those fences, and walked in that abandoned building
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< on 10/13/2005 1:47 PM >
|  | | | I was on my way to Chicago midway airport when i got distracted by a building, nice lil abandoned asylum.
 toward the back of the building there's a kitchen, bitch black and smelled like feet (mmmmm who's hungry?)the kitchen had burned down and through the roof you can see a huge smokestack.
 This is the hallway with the storage rooms on the left and courtyard doors on the right.
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hallway4 with patient rooms, these rooms, had no locks, so these must have been for "mild" patients...realize how few rooms?
on the trip out, I snapped this pic through the fence it is the cafeteria, or something.
me snapping a pic from the cab
[last edit 10/13/2005 2:03 PM by greenman999 - edited 2 times]
Tunnel Rats Are Just Beneath Your Feet! Just Keep An EyE Open, We Are ALWAYS Watching! And if u cannot see us then we are doing as we are supposed to...btw...we can see up ur skirt :-D |
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Alek:Andro!d
Location: hell [wisconSIN]
Gender: Male
[technologically augmented lifeform]
| |  | | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 1 on 2/11/2006 10:08 PM >
| | | | im unfamilliar with this one, over the spring/summer of 05 we were on an asylum kick for a while, but never came across this one. does anyone know the actual name of it?
[side note] anyone ever check out manteno, or Anna, IL?
if not, they were fun, manteno is a good starter place, safe flooring, easy access, tho its patroled a bit, early morning was allways nice imo, tho very quiet and errie.
anna is really big, and very creepy at night, but definatly entertaining, tho i have ran into, and had the living crap scared out of me by groups of kids "ghost hunting" there.... yea...
"When all you've got is a nailgun,
every problem looks like a modern messiah." |
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dundertits
 
Location: at the beginning
Cave Cave Deus Videt
| | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 2 on 2/12/2006 3:56 AM >
| | | | yeah where is this???
Matto
Kabbalah is an undramatic tradition that requires great patience and stability. One of the reasons for this tempo is that everyone has to mature his potential gradually and thoroughly at his natural pace. In this way his life's work unfolds at the right moment in his own and the cosmos's time.
Z.B.S. Halevi -- Kabbalah |
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vipermike2002
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<Reply # 3 on 2/12/2006 4:51 PM >
| | | | | anna is really big, and very creepy at night, but definatly entertaining, tho i have ran into, and had the living crap scared out of me by groups of kids "ghost hunting" there.... yea... |
Got anymore info on this place, ive never herd of it before.
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Arkan
Location: LaSalle County, Illinois
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 4 on 2/12/2006 8:33 PM >
| | | | Yes, seconding the where exactly is this located sentiment. I live in Ottawa/Dekalb so anything near this way is always exciting.
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Alek:Andro!d
Location: hell [wisconSIN]
Gender: Male
[technologically augmented lifeform]
| | | | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 5 on 2/12/2006 10:53 PM >
| | | | Posted by vipermike2002
Got anymore info on this place, ive never herd of it before.
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sure do.
Anna State Hospital
aka Clyde Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center
Anna, Illinois
Architect: Stephen Vaughn Shipman
About the Architect hipman died in Chicago, Illinois, November 12, 1935, aged eighty. He came to Chicago from Madison, Wisconsin in 1871. He drew plans for the Academy of Music in Chicago and superintended its construction. He designed the hospitals for the insane at Elgin and Anna, Illinois and at Mendota and Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The dome of the Capitol at Madison and U. S. Post Office there were designed by him. He was elected a Fellow of the Western Association of Architects in 1884 and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1889.
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courtsey of http://www.historicasylums.com/
theres a small arial view of the place. its huge.
it also includes a pretty large tunnel system, most of the enterances are sealed, tho theres a few including a hole in one of the walls in the main building's basement.
its pretty far south of me, so i dont get to explore it as much as i would like, its about 8 hours from me now sadly 
here's a rather dated, image of what it once looked like.
it doesnt quite look like this anymore.
"When all you've got is a nailgun,
every problem looks like a modern messiah." |
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Alek:Andro!d
Location: hell [wisconSIN]
Gender: Male
[technologically augmented lifeform]
| | | | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 6 on 2/12/2006 10:56 PM >
| | | | Posted by Arkan
Yes, seconding the where exactly is this located sentiment. I live in Ottawa/Dekalb so anything near this way is always exciting.
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have you checked out the armory in joliet?
or a little firther south theres a great beginner's place, but still fun for a few strolls at night called Manteno.
and theres an abandoned slaughter house north of you, near the town of Irene that is pretty crazy too.
"When all you've got is a nailgun,
every problem looks like a modern messiah." |
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Arkan
Location: LaSalle County, Illinois
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 7 on 2/13/2006 4:21 PM >
| | | | Thanks Alex, I've been to Manteno several times, but that slaughterhouse is new to me. I'm pretty familiar with the abandonments around Ottawa, but up near Dekalb I haven't had a lot of opportunities to explore.
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Chuck
Location: Chicago
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 8 on 2/13/2006 5:01 PM >
| | | | I thought Anna was still active?
Chuck
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. - Clint Eastwood |
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Alek:Andro!d
Location: hell [wisconSIN]
Gender: Male
[technologically augmented lifeform]
| | | | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 9 on 2/14/2006 10:17 PM >
| | | | Posted by Chuck
I thought Anna was still active?
Chuck
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hrmmm, i think some of the outer buildings are still, but the main admin building, and the dorms are abandoned.
given i was down there this last sept. mabye they are rehabbing some?
"When all you've got is a nailgun,
every problem looks like a modern messiah." |
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Alek:Andro!d
Location: hell [wisconSIN]
Gender: Male
[technologically augmented lifeform]
| | | | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 10 on 2/14/2006 10:20 PM >
| | | | Posted by Arkan
Thanks Alex, I've been to Manteno several times, but that slaughterhouse is new to me. I'm pretty familiar with the abandonments around Ottawa, but up near Dekalb I haven't had a lot of opportunities to explore.
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the slaughter house was wieeeeerd. but wow i wish i knew how to give directions to the place. for some reason i get lost ALOT out by Irene, and its sad, theres only like 4 main roads out there. heh
i know, if your going north thru irene, and you go past bloodspoint/BP rd. the first diagonal road that has an open angle on your right, you turn right, and follow that a few blocks. but yea, its hard to keep your bearings on directions out there late at night.
i can talk to a few friends still down in that area, and see if they know more precise directions.
"When all you've got is a nailgun,
every problem looks like a modern messiah." |
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cha0s
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<Reply # 11 on 5/10/2006 1:40 PM >
|  | | | Choate Mental Hospital in Anna is still active. I was just released on 5-9-06 after spending 10 days there. All i ever seen on duty at one time was one security guard, so theres not too much risk of getting caught because he is inside the buildings half the time. Plus the shift changes are at 7:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m., and 11:00 p.m. so watch for the traffic going through at around those times if you are there, and dont enter off of 51 because of the main office and cameras at the entrance. also be careful with some doors because they have security alarms....
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DiVaMoNKeY
Location: Grundy County, IL
Gender: Female
I pushed with all my might; I pushed with all my love.
| |  | | | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 12 on 5/10/2006 3:10 PM >
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| Choate Mental Hospital in Anna is still active. I was just released on 5-9-06 after spending 10 days there. |
Ummmm Anyone else wanna touch this one?
I know more about blood than you |
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Chuck
Location: Chicago
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 13 on 5/11/2006 5:01 PM >
| | | | I just skipped over it!!
Figured it was for the best!!
Chuck
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. - Clint Eastwood |
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Subaruski
Location: Rockford, IL
| | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 14 on 6/25/2006 6:58 PM >
| | | | Posted by Alek:Andro!d
the slaughter house was wieeeeerd. but wow i wish i knew how to give directions to the place. for some reason i get lost ALOT out by Irene, and its sad, theres only like 4 main roads out there. heh
i know, if your going north thru irene, and you go past bloodspoint/BP rd. the first diagonal road that has an open angle on your right, you turn right, and follow that a few blocks. but yea, its hard to keep your bearings on directions out there late at night.
i can talk to a few friends still down in that area, and see if they know more precise directions.
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I drove out there today. I followed some leads from some other people and the stuff you sent me. Nothing still. I saw a man riding his bike when i was on Irene Road. I stopped and talked to him briefly. He said he could kind of remember a slaughterhouse that was up the street aways off of Poole and Townhall Road. He said it used to be right in front of the Town Hall building. I couldnt get much out of him but he did say "used to remember". I drove up on Town hall and took it all the way to where it crosses I-90 and then back. I didnt see anything at all not even a townhall building. I'm thinking that it has been torn down, but still i saw no remains of anything. There are some new residential developments towards the end of Townhall Road. Maybe that forced them to demo the building. I dont know......
How long ago was it that you where out there?
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Subaruski
Location: Rockford, IL
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<Reply # 15 on 6/27/2006 1:26 PM >
| | | | Ok i am at the point now where i 99% believe this place doesnt exist and never has. I did tons of homework on it. I went and talked to people in the area, scooted it on five different occasions with a friend of mine. I also went into the county records and read a couple history books on the area. I brough up records on every business that has been in that area for the last 150 years......nothing. More then likely this person who said they saw it came upon something else, but i have no idea what that would of been either.
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NV
Supreme Noble Donor
Location: City of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, Mayor
| | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 16 on 6/27/2006 10:19 PM >
| | | | Posted by Subaruski
Ok i am at the point now where i 99% believe this place doesnt exist and never has... |
Much like the "abandoned asylum" that started this thread.
Whatever "Big Tex" saw, it wasn't an asylum.
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dangeraaron
Gender: Male
| | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 17 on 7/21/2006 11:00 PM >
| | | | Ohhh if you guys haven't been to manteno I recommend you get to it before its all converted or demo. I've had some great memories there and consider it my first UE.
Loook for the room of plastic utensils. sure to be a hit.
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I am the Bear
Location: Seattle Wa
Gender: Male
| | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 18 on 7/22/2006 2:43 AM >
| | | | yeah i love it when you stumble upon stuff like that while passing through
i hear chicago is littered with places like that. i may have to schedule a vacation out that way.
thanks for the post.
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dev
Passed away September 23rd, 2006.
| | Re: Midwestern abandoned Asylum
<Reply # 19 on 7/22/2006 4:47 PM >
| | | | Posted by dangeraaron
Ohhh if you guys haven't been to manteno I recommend you get to it before its all converted or demo. I've had some great memories there and consider it my first UE.
Loook for the room of plastic utensils. sure to be a hit.
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the room full of plastic utensils (blue) has been demolished for over a year.
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