Kankakee, IL: Abandoned General Foods (Quaker Oats) Plant

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Joshua Sheehan posted

From the comments on this posting, it was evidently a General Foods Plant that made dog food.
Troy Trost Thank you for share the picture of our building. We at Acere are working really hard to make this great building into a training facility for our local emergency services, military and K9 trainers. We have lots of work to do but it's been a fun adventure. We are always looking for volunteers to help us out.
Lesley Elston Great place for a zombie movie.
Troy Trost Lesley Elston we do a haunted factory there in October to help raise money to fix the place up and to build training props for our local emergency services, military and K9 trainers.
Orlando Gonzales Anyone wanna explore this building? I have spots available for june 16th and july 20th you get to explore 7 floors free roam. If interested contact me.

Or it made human food:

Evie N Bob Bruns posted
Conrail 1668 with 1673 switching the yard in Kankakee at Hobbie St. by the Quaker Oats factory on 9/4/1982.

Moriah Brent posted two photos with the comment: "Not sure what it used to be but it's obviously an old warehouse/factory of some sort 
Located off rt. 50 in kankakee"
Joshua Conover Being turned into an airsoft site not paintball.
Dalton James Verway It’s really cool. They ran paid tours these last several months.

Orlando Gonzales Yes i do urbex/photography events there. I got one july 20th from 2-8pm if interested pm me.
Troy Trost The place in question is currently being used as a training facility for our local emergency services k9 and military. The photo shoots by Orlando Gonzales, the airsoft and the haunted factory are all ways to help fix the place up.

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Keith Yearman posted
At the old Quaker Oats facility in Kankakee
Aaron Combs: I do remember talk that they wanted to run a conveyor over the Kankakee secondary to the Short Milling facility but the RR wouldn't let them. Not sure if that was part of the demise. We used to put box cars in about every day in the old warehouse at that time it was Space Center. Lots of canned tuna from the west coast.