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Old Chicago Main Post Office
The Old Chicago Main Post Office is a nine-story-tall building in Chicago designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and built in 1921. The original structure was a brick-sided mail terminal building, still sited just east of the main building that engulfs the Eisenhower Expressway as it turns into Congress Parkway. Major expansion in 1932 added a total of nine floors for more than , or 2.5 million square feet (230,000 m²) of floorspace. Its footprint, as initially designed, would have blocked the proposed Congress Parkway extension. As a compromise, a hole for the Parkway was reserved in the base of the Post Office and utilized twenty years later. In 1966 the Main Chicago Post Office came to a virtual halt when a logjam of 10 million pieces of mail clogged the system for almost one whole week. With Chicago rated worst in postal deliveries, a new Main Post Office was proposed for right across Harrison Street. In 1997, the old building was vacated in favor of the new, modernized facility. The official address of the Old Post Office is 433 W. Van Buren St., Chicago, IL.〔 A February 2006 report by the General Accounting Office stated that it cost the government $2 million a year to maintain the retired building.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.〔(National Register of Historic Places - Illinois Retrieved on August 27, 2009. )〕
==Filming==
The post office was used in the filming of ''Batman Begins'' in 2004,〔(Batman Begins (2005) - Filming locations )〕 and for filming ''The Dark Knight'' in April 2007.〔(The Dark Knight (2008) - Filming locations )〕〔()〕〔http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/365570.php?contentType=4&contentId=421511〕 It is also seen from above in the opening credits of Candyman.
In the summer of 2010, Paramount Pictures and Michael Bay filmed numerous scenes for ''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' in and around Chicago. The old Chicago Post Office's east facade was decorated as the "Department of Health and Human Services" where the Autobots were kept by the federal government in the movies. The same interior that was used for filming of the bank heist in ''The Dark Knight'' was used again for ''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''. There were also some scattered shots from within the Post Office interior used throughout the film.〔(Transformers Live Action Movie Blog Retrieved on July 25, 2011. )〕
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