Workers abandoned Loop office buildings Monday as millions of gallons of water poured from the Chicago ... This tunnel spur ends in a sealed bulkhead that was built after the flood.

When the Chicago ... the tunnel. Water poured in, but a widespread disaster narrowly was averted. So could it happen again? Not likely. After the 1992 flood, massive concrete bulkheads were ...

is whether or not there’s a secret system of railroad tunnels under the Chicago Loop area that contributed to the Chicago Loop Flood back in the 1990s. The answer is: Yes, absolutely!

Donation Options Search Search Search J.J. Madia was a civil engineer who monitored the Loop tunnels to make sure they didn’t flood again ... Sun-Times file Share Chicago is a city marked ...

It was a massive flood that ... into the Deep Tunnel. The process was painstakingly slow and took weeks to get the Loop back to normal. It's been 15 years since the Great Chicago Flood, but ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --It has been a wet morning in the Loop, but nothing like it was 30 years ago today, when several downtown buildings flooded after a tunnel under the Chicago River was breached by ...

“Last April 13, as the Great Chicago Flood poured through tunnels and basements under the Loop, Mayor Richard M. Daley cast about for someone to blame. He quickly found acting transportation ...

More than seventeen years after the so-called Great Chicago Flood—a 1992 construction ... historians say, and the tunnels were abandoned in 1959. Under the Loop at an average of 40 ft below ...

Illinois Telegraph & Telephone laid cables 40 feet beneath the Loop. Sneakily, the tunnels the company dug for these cables were large enough for tiny freight trains. For decades, the Chicago ...

CHICAGO (WLS ... Mart was the first of many Loop buildings to call 911. Over 124 million gallons of water rushed into the Loop's underground tunnel system. The flood was Richard M.

CHICAGO (CBS) --It has been a wet morning in the Loop, but nothing like it was 25 years ago today, when several downtown buildings flooded after a tunnel under the Chicago River was breached by ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- 28 years ago an unforgettable disaster happened in Chicago's Loop when more than 200 million gallons of water from the Chicago River flooded tunnels underneath the city.