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The Chicago flood occurred on April 13, 1992, when repair work on a bridge spanning the Chicago River damaged the wall of an abandoned and disused utility tunnel beneath the river. The resulting breach flooded basements, facilities and the underground Chicago Pedway throughout the Chicago Loop with an estimated 250 million US gallons (1,000,000 ...
September 4, 1913 [3] Construction end. July 30, 1914 [3] Statistics. Daily traffic. Nearly 100 trains [4] Location. The Canal Street railroad bridge (or Pennsylvania Railroad bridge) is a vertical-lift bridge across the south branch of the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on December 12, 2007.
The George Floyd riots in Chicago were a series of civil disturbances in 2020 in the city of Chicago, Illinois. Unrest in the city began as a response to the murder of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. The demonstrations and riots, supporting justice for Floyd and protesting police brutality, occurred simultaneously ...
Chicago's Department of Transportation (CDOT) has outlined plans for upcoming lane closures on the Division Street Bridge spanning over the Chicago River.
These clips from The Island Packet’s archive show what happened after a barge hit the swing-span bridge connecting Hilton Head Island to the mainland in 1974.
(Reuters) -Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early on Tuesday after a container ship smashed into a pylon, sending eight people into frigid water below. WHAT HAPPENED IN BALTIMORE? At ...
On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below. As part of a 2005 legal settlement, the band agreed to pay $200,000 to ...
E. H. Bennett. Opened. February 11, 1922. Rebuilt. 2012-2013. Location. The Wells Street Bridge is a bascule bridge over the Chicago River, in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States, which was built in 1922. Standing east of the Franklin Street Bridge and southeast of the Merchandise Mart, the bridge connects the Near North Side with "The ...