Community Corner
30 Years Ago Today: Great Chicago Flood Paralyzes Loop Businesses
An estimated 250 million gallons of Chicago River water poured through a crack into a little-used network of tunnels under the Loop in 1992.
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.
