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Chicago Flood Redux: Those Infamous Tunnels Wreak Highway Havoc

Publication Date: 21-OCT-09
Author: Tudor Van Hampton
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Description:
More than seventeen years after the so-called Great Chicago Flood—a 1992 construction snafu in which a misplaced piling that was driven into the Chicago River hit an abandoned freight tunnel, flooding downtown basements and knocking out utilities—those infamous tunnels are at it again.
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