Midwestern silos helped transform agriculture, but many are disappearing from the landscape.
Marianne May has tracked down nearly 200 silos built by her grandfather across northern Illinois, preserving a fading piece of Corn Belt history.
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For 150 years, silos have been a fixture of the Corn Belt, but efforts to preserve them have been haphazard.
