Elgin Pipes Action

If you were more than a casual skateboarder in the 80’s who lived in and around the orbit of Chicago, you would eventually hear tales of a mysterious spot called the Elgin Pipes, allegedly located near a mental hospital, and in 1983, the scene of a double homicide. You could say the spot defitnely had mystique to those who hadn’t been there. Here’s a few pics courtesy of Art Abasolo.

The pics below are from a sparingly active Facebook group dedicated to solving the double homicide known as the Spaulding Road Murders. The later two are from a digitized and uncredited news broadcast from when the incident was freshly in the news.