At 86, the brilliant mind behind Ross Perot’s EDS is one of the last lions of a bygone era. He’s worried about what comes ...

“The building is made of salt,” said Tomasa ... neither the Caddo nor anyone knew what lie underneath, until the Morton Salt Company came to town in the early 1900s. “We do a lot of the ...

“This building was a classic industrial production ... workers’ activities — a young woman repainting the towering Morton Salt Girl, the choreographed dance of leveling cement floors ...

One Chicago photographer is reimagining the city’s iconic Morton Salt Warehouse while honoring ... and reinvigoration of the classic building. Now her work is highlighting the people who made ...

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This Chicago music venue opened in 2022 — but as the giant letters on the roof and the image of a girl with an umbrella make clear, the building used to be part of Morton Salt. The letters and ...

Ashok Selvam/Eater Chicago Flocking a few minutes south, the new brewpub, around the corner on Elston Avenue, just north of the Salt Shed’s Morton Salt ... the bottle while building the salt ...

We tried: Morton Lite Salt 50% Less (1,160 mg of sodium per teaspoon ... MSG (monosodium glutamate) combines sodium with glutamate, an amino acid, a building block of protein found in many ...

For years, operations remained steady, and the stability of the plant is what led to the iconic nature of the building. It didn't matter the decade you drove through Chicago; you knew you could count ...

“In a lot of ways, it still looks like the Salt Shed that we saw originally, and that was the intent,” added Creager. “It’s an iconic and beloved building that the people of Chicago know and love and ...

Can you talk about the history of the building itself? I saw it used to actually be a salt shed. Yes, this was very much a real salt shed right up until about 7 years ago. Since the 1920s this site ...

The Morton Salt building, now a concert venue known as The Salt Shed, photographed by Daniel Schindler – IG: @Chidrone For over 90 years, millions of tons of salt were loaded and unloaded at the ...