The leak was sealed a few days after rising water was discovered, but cleanup efforts from the Great Chicago Flood took weeks.
Although the flood on April 13, 1992, was mainly out of sight, lurking 40 feet below the city’s streets, it wreaked visible havoc.
“It has become one of these critical stories of Chicago,” said John Russick, vice president for interpretation and education at the Chicago History Museum. “If you call yourself a Chicagoan, you know what’s on a Chicago-style hot dog, you know who Shoeless Joe Jackson was and you know when the Chicago flood happened.”
Workers abandoned Loop office buildings Monday as millions of gallons of water poured from the Chicago River into a network of underground tunnels and then into the basements of downtown high-rises.Dehumidifiers snake out of DePaul University's Loop building at Jackson Boulevard and Wabash Avenue as they remove moisture on April 23, 1992, from the air in the flooded basements.
The seepage was considered routine at the time it was spotted, and plans were made to make repairs from within the tunnel.
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