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.

Officials of the company that drove the bundles of 50-foot wooden pilings into the Chicago River at Kinzie Street last year blamed ... themselves of blame for the flood that swamped the Loop ...

The installation of 50-foot-long piling clusters at the Kinzie ... to install protective pilings at five Chicago River bridges, including Kinzie Street. Alleging four instances where Great Lakes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

It was the Great Chicago Flood of 1992. By the time Myron ... a crack in an old freight tunnel beneath the Chicago River near the Kinzie Street Bridge. Mayor Daley called in John Kenny Jr ...

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.