Initially, the cause was a mystery. Ultimately, it was CBS 2's Pam Zekman who broke the story of how the flood began.
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 construction work.
And initially, the cause was a mystery. Ultimately, it was CBS 2's Pam Zekman who broke the story of how the flood began. Thousands of people who had just arrived for work had to turn around and leave. But flooding had shut down the Dearborn and State Street subways. What is now known as the Red Line was rerouted to the Loop 'L,' but the Loop portion of the Blue Line was shut down altogether.
About 1,000 restaurants had only about 20 minutes to shut down, and thousands of pounds of food had to be thrown away. City crews required many of them to submit to a health inspection afterward. By the late 1950s, the system fell out of use, although some of its 15-mile grid was used to house high-voltage electrical conduits. Otherwise, the system was abandoned, and buildings put bricks or walls over their portals to the tunnels.Repairs Take Days
But every time crews thought they sealed one hole, another whirlpool would appear a little farther from the river bank. They considered sealing off the tunnel or sinking shafts into adjacent streets on opposite ends of the bridge.
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