30 Years Ago Today: Great Chicago Flood Paralyzes Loop Businesses

Chicago IL

13 April, 2022

5:16 PM

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By CBS Chicago Staff: CHICAGO (CBS) — 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. The source of the flood was a deceptive whirlpool in the Chicago River at Kinzie Street that appeared sometime after 7 a.m. in the morning of April 13, 1992. It left water gushing like a racing rapid into the vast and antiquated web of freight tunnels that run under the Loop. Read more at CBS Chicago