I been told that mall carpet is absolutely awesome for tire traction, especially racing slicks.

That movie theater is still hands down the best in the area in terms of price and customer experience. I am there at least twice a month every month to see movies with my wife. I'm happy to say that the parking lot is still usually full on a Sunday night.

Used to go here as a kid, I can still pinpoint specific phases of the mall’s downfall and eventual closing. Thanks for a trip down memory lane. Someone recently sent me an Instagram post and that Merry go round is now in Mexico.

we used to live at this mall basically. Get dropped off by the parents and hang with friends here all day catch a movie or two sit in the food court. Then got older and would do the same thing except we were driving.

I expected this mall before. And I was dare in my ciledhood.

I grew up in St Charles and remembered the first mall it was my hang out and going to wags family restaurant to hang out then the big one came it was great since the other malls were so far away Cherry valley Mall Fox valley Mall . The st Charles mall was amazing but it didn't last has long has the other malls that are older and are still there today. I had great memories at st, Charles mall.

I've went there with my parents and my sister when I was a kid, now we went to the theatre section instead.

did shop there much as i left illinois in 1995, but i remember this mall

Good video. Thanks.

Crazy. They might have to do like Aurora Mall which got a residential property built on the property.

Great video!

I was 10 when this opened. So I remember it being new. It was never as good as Stratford but I got the job done. When I was attending COD in the early 2000s, a few times I drove over to that mall to use the food court as a study space. It was already feeling pretty abandoned by that point, but it was relatively quiet and well lit and air conditioned and there was some place to get food open.

Oh my...😮

I remember this place first going up when I was fresh out of high school. I certainly was no fiscal whiz kid but I was thinking "this won't end well".

I worked as a temp replacing old seats from from movie n replacing it with the new tech seats … was confused to y it’s getting new seats when mall is completely dead . But this was 5 or 4 years ago when i worked as temp replacing seats at movie theater

How did you make that video, wow!

Does anyone know why it is abandoned?

I used to shop there a lot. Sad to see the ruin its become.

When I was young I was impressed by high performance cars. Now that I’m middle aged I’m like, “what’s the purpose?” of high performance cars. The days of outrunning the cops ended in the 70s. Cops have too much tech to outrun them today. Besides, driving crazy can get you killed. I got older and wiser and understand and respect how dangerous it is every time you get into a car. An automobile or truck is simply a means to accomplishing your goals. It’s not the goal itself. Today I’m more impressed with power tools than power cars. Would I like to own a classic MOPAR muscle car? Sure, but I’d baby it, show it off, and take it very easy driving it, but I’d drive it only on certain occasions. But, as you get older and own a home your focus shifts to home repair and home projects. A house is a great investment. A car usually isn’t. What these dead mall videos do is remind me of the constant battle against decay and to protect things that you can control like your house from decay and not be like these malls. In my opinion the 2020s is the decade of decay. But, it is a battle worth fighting even if it’s only within your realm of things like your house and your body. Retail may decay, but the things that you control don’t have to. I wish everyone of you success in your own personal battle against decay. That is where our focus should be today. Not flushing our money down the toilet on high performance cars that can get us killed.

That's definitely stupid dumb thing to do that with the cars one of them did a burnout in a old anchor store it's just pure wrong with that at all times and racing in a abandoned shopping mall and jumping a car in a abandoned mall that shouldn't be allowed at all times altogether there anyway 💯 percent legitimate