Chicago Flood, almost forgotten?

[MikeMike]

do people forget about this and when it happened? and the damage it caused?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Flood

 

[Linflas]

That is the first I remember hearing about it. 😱

 

[CPA]

does it matter? Should I remember it?

 

[acemcmac]

I saw a special on it on the history channel about 18 months ago

 

[UglyCasanova]

Why are you wondering, is this something we should be discussing? If you are trying to compare this to NO, well, there is no comparison. No one lost their lives, 3 days and business was back to normal, big whoop.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Workers attempted to plug the car-sized hole with 65 truckloads of rocks and cement as well as mattresses.

lol, mattresses

 

[erikistired]

chicago had a flood?

 

[Kevin1211]

watchin the history channel today?

 

[Twista]

I know about it from my computer class. The teacher brought it up one day and it was the 1st time hearing about it :/ and i live in chicago also.

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: Kevin1211
watchin the history channel today?

bingo 😀

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE

Originally posted by: Kevin1211
watchin the history channel today?

bingo 😀

I saw that one a few months back. I didn't even remember it occuring. Of course, I was a senior in high school that year and my mind was on other things....

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

It was a pretty huge issue in Chicago. I think I was working in the Loop at the time.

 

[K1052]

I can actually see where they ruptured the drift from my condo.

An interesting link about the Chicago Tunnel Company:
http://users.ameritech.net/chicagotunnel/tunnel1.html

 

[KLin]

What about the Great Chicago Fire?