The source of the flood was a deceptive whirlpool in the Chicago River at Kinzie ... wooden pilings had been installed in the riverbed to protect the Kinzie Street Bridge from boat traffic.

Donation Options Search Search Search Workers prepare to pour cement into a shaft leading to a flooded tunnel to block the flow from the Chicago ... Flood — the pilings near the Kinzie Street ...

We lay our scene in fair Chicago. It’s Monday, April 13, 1992, 9 a.m., nary a rain cloud in sight. And yet the basements of City Hall, the Federal Reserve Bank, Marshall Field’s, and more Loop ...

Twenty-five years after the Great Chicago Flood paralyzed downtown ... tunnel system near the Kinzie Street Bridge. In January 1992, a few months after wooden pilings were installed by a ...

"I got out of the car and looked around and I saw some water swirling," former NBC Chicago ... flood. It was a hole the size of a car near the Kinzie Street Bridge, and it was sucking in river ...

On April 13th, 1992, Chicago was struck by a man-made natural disaster. The Great Chicago Flood ... river. Pilings protect the bridges from runaway barges. One of their new pilings near the Kinzie ...

This month marks the 10 th anniversary of the Great Chicago Flood, an event that seemed cataclysmic at the time, but now, with the benefit of hindsight, resembles more of a harmless but expensive ...

When the Great Flood rushed into the Loop ... of Public Works project to replace pilings at five sites along the Chicago River, including at the Kinzie Street Bridge. According to a preliminary ...

The State Street ... across the Chicago River: Northbound vehicular traffic: From northbound State St, detour to westbound Wacker Dr, to northbound Dearborn St, to eastbound Kinzie St, back ...

The disgusting event happened as the tour bus drove over the Kinzie Street Bridge in Downtown Chicago. The bus dumped 800 pounds of bathroom waste into the river as unsuspecting passengers on an ...