The city of Chicago (and it's octopus suburbs) advances over the surrounding fertile farmland at a rate of half a mile per year. (source: Illinois Farm Bureau) Covered over with concrete, that rich dark soil will never return to productive life.
So it goes with farms, too. Barns that no longer house livestock aren't worth the expense of maintaining. They gently decay, are torn down, or are pushed in a pile and set ablaze. Like the proverbial old gray mare - barns ain't what they used to be.
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