Ghost Mall - The Scraps of Dixie Square Mall in Illinois

There are ghost towns of the past, and there are huge, entire ghost buildings that were once thriving, colorful and alive. When I say "ghost mall", I don't mean haunted by ghosts (although this one certainly looks very eerie). I mean that this mall was abandoned years ago. More than THIRTY years ago. It was open only thirteen years, and it has sat there empty and decaying for more than thirty years. The mall closed in the late 1970's. Of all the ghost malls I have seen, Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois looks the most decayed. Even the upper floor is collapsing.  Thank you to jonrev for creating this amazing video on YouTube. 

To see a video that explains the background of this mall, along with more scenes of it's current decayed state, look here (video by dannyshortbus ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-BWqY6LuW8&NR=1

To see what the mall looked like shortly after it closed when it was used for a mall scene (crashing a car through the mall) in the movie "Blue Brothers", look here (thanks to jonrev ) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oMtdXaqBx4

And here's the wikipedia article on Dixie Square Mall:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Square_Mall