Chicago's Forgotten Lake Tunnels, Cribs, and Waterworks - IT'S HISTORY

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The History of Chicago's waterworks is jam-packed with some of the most remarkable examples of human innovation, from the miles of tunnels built directly under lake Michigan to the artificial islands known as water cribs, the lifting of the entire city, and the reversal of the Chicago River. Although these feet of engineering are impressive, probably nothing will compete with the monumental deep tunnel project that has been unfolding for the past few decades.
Chapters:
01:00 - The History of Chicago’s waterworks
01:35 - Chicago’s first water board
2:47 - The raising of Chicago
4:54 - Chicago’s Lake tunnels & Water cribs
6:18 - Fire on Chicago’s lake crib
8:44 - The History of Chicago’s Water tower
9:28 - The Great Chicago Fire
11:12 - Chicago’s Great Storm
12:27 - The reversal of the Chicago river
13:16 - The Lake levels controversy
15:06 - Construction of Chicago’s main canal
16:44 - The expansion of Chicago’s waterworks
17:55 - Lawsuits against Chicago’s river reversal
18:47 - The decline of Chicago’s Water cribs
19:05 - Chicago’s deep tunnel project
20:10 - The phases of TARP
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@CrimsonRaven51 2 года назад

I was born and raised on the south side of Chicago. I remember summer time and going to the museum of Science and Industry, we would go to the beach across the street. You could see the crib in the distance and my grandmother told me about it. Many years later I was in a private boat on Lake Michigan and we decided to sail near the Crib. We got very close and I remember having such an erie feeling looking at it so close after a lifetime of only seeing it from the shore.

@paulsolomon7675 2 года назад

35 st beach

@ijfsk8cr3w 2 года назад

@@paulsolomon7675 is it on 35th? I'd love to see it, didn't even know these existed till today.

@robertabugelis3962 2 года назад

Hello from the East Side!

@StringerNews1 2 года назад

I had a similar experience! Grew up in the suburbs myself, and was a frequent visitor to the Museum of Science and Industry as a boy. I remember driving by the Nike missile batteries on the lakeshore on the way to the museum, more so than the water cribs. But flying into O'Hare we saw the cribs from the air. In the '70s when the city transitioned to sodium street lights, flying in at night showed the city like a map, with all the main arteries glowing orange from the sodium lights and the rest of the city streets white from the old mercury lights. Never went swimming at that beach, but did go to the Wilmette beach, and remember lots of alewives washed ashore. Also got to see the North Shore sanitary canal. In the '90s I had a friend with a 10m sailboat, and we passed by all the Chicago cribs and got to see them up close.

@richardnelson64 2 года назад

I lived on 63th and Hamilton and went to O'Toole school in the sixties when I was a kid ☮️♥️🌞✌️🎆💠😀👉👍

@benmcreynolds8581 2 года назад

It blows my mind that people didn't just walk away from early Chicago and just decide, way too much work would be needed in order to make that city area habitable.They did so many unreal projects..

@swiftbobber 2 года назад

Tartaria Melbourne utube

@adamr9215 Год назад

It was and still is a cesspool of evil and disgusting people. I wished that other states kept their word and sent their national guard to wipe out Chicago. The country and the world would be a better place.

@Dan.Solo.Chicago Год назад

The lake and rivers made the location a perfect hub for trade. Traveling by boat is much easier and faster than traveling overland. The lake can take you to Canada, all of the other Great Lakes, and up to the St. Lawrence Seaway, then on to the Atlantic Ocean. The river can take you to the Mississippi River and down to the Gulf of Mexico. Those lines of transportation made it well worth the trouble. Native Americans knew that as well. Multiple trails from all directions intersected here for the exact same reason, just on a smaller scale. They weren't very interested in living here though. There was some kind of wild onion growing here that dominated the landscape. They didn't like the smell of it, and didn't live hear because of it. The city is named after that wild onion.

@mcm531 Год назад

@@Dan.Solo.Chicago The Great Lakes and proximity to the Mississippi River are definitely reasons for Chicago’s importance and growth. However, it was actually the decision to invest in rail lines that made the city what it is today. St. Louis thought rail was temporary and that steamboats would continue to dominate the transportation sector. Chicago, while being much less central geographically in the US than St. Louis, bet big on rail/freight which would ultimately beat out steamboats. Chicago grew and became a huge trade transportation hub while St. Louis fell behind. Once Chicago was established as the central rail hub it was too late for St. Louis to do the same, so it never became the great big city that Chicago is now.

@emr6153 11 месяцев назад

Ikr? That's what i would say it i were a Bears fan!!

@deniseboldea1624 2 года назад

They should preserve at least one of the cribs and tunnels to it. Tourist attraction value and history aside, it would be an object of interest to engineering and architectural students for study.

@A_Chicago_Man 2 года назад

Truly!

@donjuanmacgyverjohnson1190 2 года назад

The aragon ballroom has a tunnel that connects to the rivera theater and local bars today is about 2 miles with multiple entrances some are seald.

@knighttuttrupriprock9733 2 года назад

@@donjuanmacgyverjohnson1190 the Aragon ball room, wow. Saw Lynard Skynard there mid 70's. Who knew about the tunnels. I'd of liked to check them out. Chicago's such an s hole now, doubt I'll ever go back. Great memories though.

@ImSwisherSweeter 2 года назад

@@knighttuttrupriprock9733 Chicago is not a shithole for tourists only it’s residents.

@carstarsarstenstesenn 2 года назад

@@knighttuttrupriprock9733 we don't want you back with that attitude

@TheInfinitySystem 2 года назад

Thank you for disposing of the film grain overlay. Much appreciated and makes the vintage photos pop better. 👏

@chooch1995 2 года назад

“Turning the screws unanimously”? Maybe, but ‘simultaneously’ was the word you were looking for....

@mattiOTX 2 года назад

Lmfao

@tylanway5450 2 года назад

Hey ya Chooch didn't Craig beat you to that punch? guh

@edpinkerton7947 2 года назад

Make your own video and use any words you want

@kimberlyx4060 2 года назад

I was thinking of shoring, and they were probably screw jacks. Just my guess.

@JohnDoe-cm5tz 2 года назад

Think in context they both mean all together

@JT-91 2 года назад

great channel. Reminds me of the history channel before they went stupid with aliens

@vapormissile 2 года назад

Amen. Don't forget Sasquatch.

@RRaucina 2 года назад

And "Fantasy Island" -Oak Island. Finally found a button after 12 years!

@culturebreath369 2 года назад

I miss the good oll days

@spacecat7247 2 года назад

Ha ha. Truth be told

@edam1486 2 года назад

And pawn stars.

@Gadzooki 2 года назад

Only humans say, "screw it instead of finding a new spot, let's spend 50 years lifting buildings and messing with the water table."

@erics.786 2 года назад

Ala New Orleans...

@Greenteabook 2 года назад

Seattle fixed being on the tide by just filling in the space between buildings and raising the streets up about a floor. The tour of some of the old buildings around the first floors is pretty interesting.

@0fficialdregs 2 года назад

i pray New Orleans have the same mindset but no

@matthewmosier8439 2 года назад

Well, they likely realized that they couldn't convince everybody to move to another spot, so they were left little choice.

@shelleykentner4900 2 года назад

Also, there are tunnels under Lake Ontario. Gypsum tunnels (drywall). I hauled hundreds, maybe thousands of loads of drywall out of the CGC plant (now owned by USG) in the /90’s. There are also other plants up on the Hamilton mountain in Ontario. I spoke with the guys that went down under the lake and they are full of knowledge about the tunnels. Fascinating.

@A_Chicago_Man 2 года назад

Great Vid Ryan. Thank you. I live in Chicago. When I was 7 or 8 (62 or 63) me and some ahole buddies walked out on the ice to the crib of the Diversey Fullerton area. Was a long cold ass walk. Wasn't that big a deal as the maint crews were driving pickups on the ice lol, but was crazy scary and fun. I mention it because I will miss those goofy cribs. Nothing lasts forever though brother. Especially us lol : )

@amadeusa.4907 2 года назад

What surrounding streets was that?

@MattRNewcomb 4 месяца назад

Thank you for holding on the stereoscopic pictures. It was great to enjoy their simulated 3D 💜

@jantschierschky3461 2 года назад

Some of the engineering is mind boggling, I visited Chicago few times, an amazing city. Is good that they are proactive now, not reactivate as in the past.

@brosefmcman8264 2 года назад

Your chances of surviving a trip to Chicago are 43% I guess that is proactive population control? 🤷‍♂️

@jantschierschky3461 2 года назад

@@brosefmcman8264 i been to Chicago 5 or 6 times, been all over for weeks at the time, never had any issues. I actually found people there very friendly in comparison to NYNY

@a.k.salazr 2 года назад

I live in Chicago and I took a class about chicago history in college but these tunnels were not mentioned in class. Very interesting. Thank you!

@mrhyd388 2 года назад

This was very interesting. You should also look into the salt mines below Detroit and lake erie

@DrFrag-wh2qh 2 года назад

I agree I live in the Detroit area and visited the salt mines back in the 1980’s it was pretty interesting

@Exabyte98 2 года назад

Such a cool topic, good recommendation

@forcelightningcable9639 2 года назад

Omg those salt mines are massive!!

@stonedfacekilla 2 года назад

There's a Morton salt mine a few miles from my house in grand saline tx. One of the largest salt domes in the world. When you're at the park in town, you can hear and feel the blasts underground

@GenuineNPC 2 года назад

Aren't most of those flooded?

@TheLastWord117 2 года назад

As a Chicagoan, I new half of this stuff and this video explains alot more....people still get flooded basements from time to time...

@randyj4452 2 года назад

I love the stereograms! They add an extra dimension to the video!

@hyperbaroque 2 года назад

The Chicago fire was not the only fire at the time. There were fires all across Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan at the exact same time. Did they all spread from one lantern kicked by one cow? L.O.L.

@dn744 2 года назад

Easy to blame a cow, it couldn't say it didn't do it

@Heathcliff_hensel 2 года назад

it was obviously planned, lets not be naive.

@mikehunt8375 2 года назад

It was the entire world! Seriously google any city in America, they all burned down! Sometimes twice. The city halls and libraries were always burned to the ground. All that paperwork gone... nothing to see here, now back to your regular scheduled TV PROGRAMMING...

@mpetersen6 2 года назад

It had been a very dry summer with dry warm conditions lasting pretty much up to the time of the fires. In terms of loss of life the one in Pestigo was far worse than the Chicago fire. Thee fires also happened the same time the Earth passes through the debris that follows the same orbital path as Halley's Comet. There is some thought that the fires resulted from meteors that struck while still hot enough to cause fires. The fires in Wisconsin and Lower Michigan along with the Chicago fire all pretty much started at the same time.

@benbaker2965 2 года назад

My understanding was that single fires were common occurrences in a time when everything was made of wood. What was significant on the day was the combination of weather conditions that caused these fires to spread and become major events throughout these states. The ongoing drought, the high temperatures, and the winds. The Chicago fire is most remembered by history because of the size of the city.

@mbryson2899 2 года назад

I was born and grew up in Chicagoland. Huge tunnels, redirected river flows, raised city blocks, the Deep Tunnel of the 1980s, routine temporary dikes...and above all a profusion of safe drinking water...I took it all for granted, I thought those prodigious achievements were common everywhere. I moved to California in 1990 and found exactly how precious water is and how many places are ridiculously behind the times in terms of clean water.

@mbryson2899 2 года назад

I have canoed on the Des Plaines and on Salt Creek. Beautiful, except by the Berland Paint factory.

@mbryson2899 2 года назад

I worked near a Deep Tunnel worksite. The haulaway material was truly epic.

@RRaucina 2 года назад

The water projects in California rival Chicago's.

@texaswunderkind 2 года назад

Chicago has always been somewhat hamstrung by the early decision to combine storm and wastewater sewage systems into one. Unlike most major cities, where the sewage system is separate from storm water systems, in Chicago it all goes down one pipe. That means the city has to unnecessarily spend time and resources filtering through rainwater to get the poop out. But once the nation's third-largest city was built that way, what could be done? How many times can you lift a city's buildings up on stilts?

@Dan.Solo.Chicago Год назад

It was the second largest city for a long time. I think Los Angeles annexed a couple suburbs and overtook us that way. Our basements flood easily and often. A lot of people don't even realize that water is mixed with sewage. I grew up next to an expressway and when I was a little kid in the mid 80's the expressway flooded. People were in there with rowboats rescuing truckers who thought they could just plow through the water. People were even swimming in it. Being a kid, of course I wanted too as well, but my parents had to explain why I can't. "Is that why the water's brown?" "Uhhhh, kinda."

@Dan.Solo.Chicago 2 года назад

When my Grandfather was growing up in the early 1900’s near Division and Ashland, none of the buildings had plumbing. Everyone on their block had to share community toilets. I wish I knew more about this. I’m so curious about the logistics of how that all worked out. It’s unthinkable to us today, how whole neighborhoods could function under those conditions.

@patrick383ironworker Год назад

Bath houses

@piggyporkerboo Год назад

liar

@Dan.Solo.Chicago Год назад

@@piggyporkerboo About what?

@johncannizzaro9685 Год назад

I worked as a brakeman on the extra list in Jersey City ( Communipaw ) during 1969 & 1970. Some of the Diesel engines and areas in your video are very familiar to me and can be shown in the pages of my time book . Every operating dept. employee was encouraged to list engine numbers, conductors name, dates and hours worked in their time books. Sometimes the job name was also included . The West End Ave Drill , the Bayway Drill and the Float Yard Drill were a few of the names .I also took trains out of Communipaw to Allentown PA. Your video is excellent and really covers a lot.Thanks

@g1722uyt 2 года назад

Please revisit what happened in Port Huron (Fort Gratiot/Burchville)when they were building the lake Huron water plant(6 miles out in lake Huron approximately 230 ft deep tunnel). There was an explosion caused by a spark from the drill bit, 22 men died when the methane gas exploded.

@emu5088 2 года назад

Another amazing video on a super interesting topic!

@brandonboogers 2 года назад

This is really funny; I was just riding the blue line where they’re doing repairs right now, and as we were going down the opposite side of the track I was wondering “how many unused tunnels are around here?”. Had the same thought when I was walking through the decommissioned Monroe station.

@BarryRocha 2 года назад

I've always wondered about that to. Like how many more trian tracks and services tunnels are there. Remember in the Ninja Turtles movies when they found an old train station to live in?

@LifeofAedan Год назад

I wanna explore them hehe

@Dan.Solo.Chicago Год назад

If you ever get the chance, get on the front car of the Blueline. There's a seat next to the driver's booth. It's the only real way to get a good look at the tunnels. You can see tracks branching off down decommissioned tunnels. There's one main one that's well-lit going north before the train emerges for the stop at North and Damen. There are plenty of train lines that were built, like so many other things, for the Chicago World Fair. Especially on the west side. I think they were closed around when the expressways were built.

@Expatriate1977 2 года назад

I love these documentaries. I'm from Chicago and though I live abroad, damn do I love Chicago...just not Beetlejuice Nor anyone else running...sorry ruining the city. Should be a felony life sentence for what is happening there. Still one of the most beautiful cities in the world. This and NYC I love most in the USA.

@Andrew-on5do 2 года назад

Catfish eyes is ruining the city.

@gregkrueger331 2 года назад

Couldn’t have said it better myself. It’s a shame really.

@carstarsarstenstesenn 2 года назад

everyone running this city belongs in prison. but it's Crook County for a reason

@Expatriate1977 2 года назад

@@carstarsarstenstesenn true dat! Crook county where the worst crooks run the jails!🤣

@mtnvortex 2 года назад

Great stuff, Ryan. Really interesting. Thanks.

@knighttuttrupriprock9733 2 года назад

I grew up about an hour north of Chicago. I was aware of some of what you covered, but a lot I'd never heard of. That was a great video, thanks so much, I really enjoyed that.

@geyserink 2 года назад

Right!!! I was thinking the same thing. Saw the big "quarry" as I knew them as a kid. Didn't know they were going to be reservoirs for the water works. Some really interesting stuff.

@knighttuttrupriprock9733 2 года назад

@@geyserink where in Illinois did you grow up?

@paulabarch5065 18 дней назад

The Ferris Buhler north suburbs?

@paulabarch5065 18 дней назад

Misspelled Buehler i think.

@TRPL6 2 года назад

Proud to be from Chicago!!!

@sergeant_chris6209 2 года назад

It will be really sad if the remaining Cribs are destroyed. They are a real piece of history, and native Chicagoans who care about their city should do everything they can to preserve them. Maybe make them into museums or something

@kenworthkid998 2 года назад

Its is sad but unfortunately Chicago has been taken from its people. The whole city and surrounding suburbs have no power without war.

@lennychorn147 2 года назад

He missed an important point about the resiviors. They're not digging them out. They're using areas of existing rock quarries. Another fact, when the city stopped using the Cribs, to draw water from two miles off shore. The quality of the water went down, especially during the summer. The water isn't as cold and often had an allege smell to it. This is due to taking the water from shallow lake waters. In an area of the east side of Downtown, there are actually 4 sub levels. 3 are accessible by the public. The 4th level is off limits to the public. Finally, parts of Downtown Chicago, is actually built over an actual freight and passenger train rail yard. In fact, the Millennial park and its' underground parking garage, are built over one of the rail yards under Chicago.

@ImSwisherSweeter 2 года назад

I worked across the street from Union station and I always figured they built the trains under the buildings. You go outside my old office and look down you can see the tracks. That was a cool fact maybe you should make videos too lol

@lennychorn147 2 года назад

@@ImSwisherSweeter Actually, they built the buildings over the tracks. I don't have a face for video, or even a voice for radio. People tell me that I am scary looking and my voice makes people uncomfortable.

@0fficialdregs 2 года назад

my family and i used to commute on the METRA that goes under that extra park which was owned by METRA's parent company, the Illinois central railroad

@lennychorn147 2 года назад

@@0fficialdregs I rode the Metra train out of Union Station, many times as a kid and young teen. I always enjoyed those rides. I think it was those trips, that really sparked my interest in Chicago's underground city.

@0fficialdregs 2 года назад

@@lennychorn147 what spark mind was the History Channel episode about man made mistake and talking about when the barge hit one of the pillars under a drawbridge that flooded the tunnels under the chicago river

@wildbillanderson9100 2 года назад

AWESOME BRO ! WELL DONE.....AS A LIFE TIME CHICAGOAN I AM INPRESSED WITH THIS VIDEO

@kholt1776 2 года назад

very cool video

@tylerkosalski84 2 года назад

First video I watched and subscribed five minutes in. Great video and am excited to see what other videos you have.

@craigs.546 2 года назад

I know you meant to use the word "simultaneously" not "unanimously" when talking about using the screw jacks. Lol :) But, you did a great job on this video! I didn't know the place was raised.

@Mikesonbikes 2 года назад

Nice, you're really good at thinly disguiding nitpicking as a compliment

@tarn1135 2 года назад

@@Mikesonbikes not really nitpicking, it’s nitpicking where someone has to correct there from their or they’re. While listening those spellings mean nothing but simultaneously from unanimously means completely different things.

@Keifsanderson 2 года назад

@@Mikesonbikes *disguising

@alacran1986 2 года назад

Many homes in the south side did not get raised. The street is up to the second floor.

@Nomadcreations 2 года назад

Technically & HONESTLY , "Unanimously" Is TRUE Bcz They All CHOSE To Screw Those jacks Simultaneously. = merely Objectively FYI!!!

@JDRoss716 2 года назад

You didn’t explain what or the intended purpose of a water crib is. Basically all you say is, “they started digging off shore under Lake Michigan. You didn’t explain how they are used to protect water intakes or how they transport water.

@abusednomoresilence Год назад

Thanks for sharing this helpful information .✌️🤗🌻

@DARKSEID007 Год назад

Most often the crib as stated were filled with rocks, it would filter out most large debris, only allowing water or small debris with the water to get through. It was the 1st process to not let the waterway get clogged. Basically it was a large strainer for the bigger pieces floating in the river and not get into the main waterway flow of the system. I would speculate that they used gravity fed water paths.

@rsallen13 Год назад

The cribs and tunnels bring water to the the Jardine and South water treatment plants.

@_Clem_H_Fandango_ Год назад

He explained exactly what a water crip is qt about the 5:00 mark.

@markmiller3053 Год назад

@@DARKSEID007 probably to keep dead bodies from clogging the lines

@gregorypappas766 2 года назад

Thanks for the video very interesting and informative

@chuckselvage3157 2 года назад

The engineering is outstanding. Great video.

@anrn5303 2 года назад

quite informative, thanks... :)

@bearwilliams9226 2 года назад

Amazing Facts about my City!!! Thanks for your great work!!!

@covetprice 2 года назад

Interesting video. I prefer more ads. That's the only reason why I watch RU-vid.

@alexisbrown733 Год назад

Thx u 4 sharing very informative 👍

@markpettigrew542 2 года назад

I lived for 19 years in Chicago before moving to Bellingham WASHINGTON. I lived at the Lawson House YMCA at 30 West Chicago Avenue. I learned about Mrs O'Leary and her cow, which was blamed for the Chicago Fire.

@Speedy2222 2 года назад

20:49, that reservoir is visible from the interstate in northern indiana and it is MASSIVE.

@charlottehigginbotham3327 2 года назад

These freight tunnels should be used today! They could move supplies so fast through these residential ares.

@the_retag 2 года назад

With automated electric mini railcars

@mikealba 2 года назад

Excellent video. lived in chicago in marina city, looking out onto the cribs each day. hopefully not to be demolished yet

@kobie4238 2 года назад

Great video 🔥

@GeoDelGonzo 2 года назад

The dating of such sprawl or urbanization is baffling to me.. when you hear late 1800s you always think of the wild west, but to see how humanity grappled with city development in this size at the time is insane. I need to learn more about Chicago.

@tammyforbes2101 2 года назад

I used to live In Melvindale in Detroit and every once in a while we could feel the shaking from them blasting below us in the salt mines! Thing is enormous and runs under most of Detroit!

@scotsmith2391 2 года назад

One of my favorite videos that you have done

@butchrowerakamannyfraker955 2 года назад

The water tower looked huge in the old picture from the ground and then they showed it from the air around all the modern skyscrapers and it looked like Lincoln logs

@j-jamm4969 2 года назад

The actual lake itself caught fire because of toxic sewerage

@jeffryhammel3035 2 года назад

Beautiful vid! I live here, always wanted to learn.

@bobm549 2 года назад

Thanks for the history.

@spartamerican6758 2 года назад

5:13 that's not a word, lmao.

@DirtCheapFU 2 года назад

The whole, Raising of Chicago, is such an interesting topic. I used to work at a hotel, I would love it when I need filler chat and Seattle or Chicago would come up. Because you can just string the two incidents together. Duluth, Mn has an interesting tunnel system.

@0fficialdregs 2 года назад

agreed

@user-kh6mk4gg8y Месяц назад

Another fascinating piece...thank you...also, a new word has entered our Socash Vocabulary...EQUIPTED'...keeps us listening very carefully!...well Done, Ryan!...dgp/uk

@ferzilla3798 2 года назад

So glad i found this channel

@rickybobbymusic 2 года назад

Awesome, thank you.

@steveh5542 10 месяцев назад

this is superb content

@accelwell7018 2 года назад

Man this was really informative

@salty6pence672 2 года назад

There is a house in one of the cribs now that is privately owned. So there is hope for them to stick around for awhile yet.

@salty6pence672 2 года назад

Or was, Now i cant find any info other than save the cribs. I swore i recently saw that someone had built a house on 4 mile.

@ghost307 2 года назад

Went there as part of my job. No house as of a few years ago.

@mpetersen6 2 года назад

In the recent past Chicago was threatening to sue the cities in SE Wisconsin for its water quality problems. The shore currents in Lake Michign circle counterclockwise. In reality the source of Chicagos water problem was the geese concregrating on Chicago's beaches.

@benbaker2965 2 года назад

Those d**n geese are a nuisance on so many levels.

@iguala05 2 года назад

@@benbaker2965 lrmme please y iuuu

@RjBenjamin353 2 года назад

Amazing!!!!

@johnbooth9957 2 года назад

He makes the best videos

@tvviewer4500 2 года назад

Something I have never understood. If chicago residents were getting typhoid and cholera didn't the entire population down river from chicago then get typhoid and cholera after the river changed direction? It is left out of all accounts.

@vincentstrack4933 2 года назад

They probably did, being a less populated area reports might not have been more accurately than taken or just brushed off as something else.

@rager1969 2 года назад

You describe the cribs and tell stories about them but you weren't clear on what their purpose is/was. Did/do they bring "fresh" water from the lake away from polluted shores?

@StringerNews1 2 года назад

It's the tunnels that bring fresh water from the lake to the city. The cribs are located at the ends of the tunnels, and the inlets to the tunnels have filters to keep fish and debris from entering the tunnels. In the past the inlets required regular maintenance, but now they're automated.

@skatee99 7 месяцев назад

As a life long Chicagoian, thank you for your efforts in showing how the "work ethic" of Chicago really is. Yes, we have our share of issues, as does any big city, yet, Chicago really is and, always has been. It truly, deep down is a "can-do" city. New York & L.A. residents have their own 'attitudes' yet, in Chicago, we truly have an attitude of mid-western sensibility. We welcome anybody and everybody, without contention if you are truly ready to roll your sleeves up and - help us get "things done". Perpetuating our reputation of being the city of "big sholders".

@maxbramwell.1598 2 года назад

I'm never sure of the native language of the speaker with this channel. I know Europeans with mastery of the English language are heavily involved with these projects. Good work.

@johnray5466 2 года назад

Yeah he sounds totally American but then there are some funny mistakes. Can't pin it either

@awesomeferret 2 года назад

Well, The History Guy is pretty well known. And these days Bright Sun Films is effectively a history channel, and Jake is Canadian I think. Aside from Simon Whistler, who were you thinking of as far as "Europeans with a mastery of the English Language"? I would say that The History Guy is an American with a mastery of the English language too (at least as far as history RU-vidrs go).

@TheInfinitySystem 2 года назад

It's not so much the language or the mispronunciations that are jarring, its the cadence (rhythms) of his voice. He alternates between 'really into this' and 'cold reading from a script', and his stops and pauses because of it are a bit odd. He hasn't quite found his 'groove/style' of narrating. If I had to guess, I'd say that someone else writes the script and then they just record a cold read and run with it, rather than doing a run through/rehearsal first. A for effort, though.

@slugdangler 2 года назад

"equipeded"

@cjstarmonkey73 2 года назад

What a colorful and fantastical narrative. Like a children's story. Cistercians.

@ryangiffel2136 2 года назад

This is the most interesting video I’ve ever seen

@a.k.salazr 2 года назад

Fun fact: the number of dead counted in the chicago fire is not accurate. They have it in the books as 300 people dying, but these were only the people who had a telephone line because that’s how they knew who lived there. Whoever didn’t have a phone, which was the great majority at the time since it was a luxury only the rich could afford, was not counted. The number is supposed to be over 1,000. At least that’s what my Chicago history professor told us.

@blackpanda7298 2 года назад

This is very interesting 😌 I love these kinds of topics while I terraform on cities skylines.

@thomaskaiser9956 2 года назад

Time to go explore them

@Mikey-wy1yl 2 года назад

Dope doc.

@TheRainblossoms 2 года назад

So I watched the first half of the video twice because I thought I had missed something. You never explain what the water cribs do. They are built, they have tunnels, there were some disasters.... okay and??? It's only toward the end of that segment you mention something about water extraction. Kinda vague and a little frustrating when the entire time I am thinking "What the hell is the point of these structures?"

@DrejXArmy 7 месяцев назад

I was in the USCG from 2000-2004 and I actually went to all 4 remaining cribs and went in the 2 active ones. Plus been to the lighthouse as well. I have also travelled down all of the Cal Sag and CSSC, via boat. Appears I only been on half of the Chicago RIver, which is fine, at the time had alot of junk in it which could cause boat issues. Hopefully they get it all cleaned up so everyone can travel on it and enjoy seeing Chicago from all of the river.

@litesaber54yi3 2 года назад

Invention and Technology Magazine (From American Heritage Society) had a feature article on the Chicago sewer system from the 19th century. What Chicago was able to accomplish was and is simply amazing

@HistorySkills 2 года назад

Great video. I had no idea about this

@richardnelson64 2 года назад

Thanks man love ed you're story!! 👍👉😀💠🎆✌️🌞♥️☮️

@markpettigrew542 2 года назад

When I moved to Chicago. the Loop had a huge and expensive flood!

@aliampolizzi 2 года назад

I've been trying to figure out what those structures off the coast are for 5 years. Thank you for finally sating my curiosity.

@keithschneidly3922 2 года назад

I'll bet your Grandpa Frank would have known. He was my uncle!

@noblehillministerprophet8689 2 года назад

Thank you

@Late_to_the_party 2 года назад

Never been a bright bulb that came out of that city. It still proves today.

@dyu007 9 месяцев назад

All I know about Chicago's water project is the waste water treatment is world class. Many cities around the world will come to Chicago to study as the model for other cities.

@shirleysmith8072 2 года назад

Amazing architecture in the 18th and 19th century 👏Could we do it again?💪🦾🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷👥👥👥👥👥👥👥👥

@richeeskullz 2 года назад

Most impressive.

@natewilson111 2 года назад

Nice fa-save

@nathandean1687 2 года назад

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@Illfsgoonyndndn Год назад

Would be cool to learn more about ybor city. I know they have some interesting history here

@bimmernick24 Год назад

You state that up until the 1990s the cribs were manned. I used to work with a woman whose husband would go out there for a week at a time to work in them. He retired around 2015, so I think that assertion that it ended in the 90s needs to be revisited.

@spiritualservicesgodbless7641 2 года назад

THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO THIS IS INTERSTING FOR MY HUSBAND AND I to watch tonight

@ITSHISTORY 2 года назад

and the embers never fade in my city by the lake ❤️

@lloydster9000 2 года назад

I got to see Smashing Pumpkins play at the United Center a few years ago, and when WPC sang that line, the arena went berserk with applause. It was awesome to see and hear.

@brianpmack 2 года назад

@@lloydster9000 I saw them at the Rosemont Horizon back in the day (before it was remodeled into the current Allstate Arena)

@lloydster9000 2 года назад

@@brianpmack I bet that show was fantastic!

@midwestmike613 2 года назад

@@lloydster9000 sounds epic! I saw them in high school at a small club in Toledo right before they literally blew up on MTV. A friend made me go with her so glad she did it was the only time I saw them live. Been a fan since though!

@interwebtubes 2 года назад

Yeah I’ve been to Chicago many times and I’ve known about the tunnel systems; I’ve never been down there though; That place has always interested me, even though I’ve never been down there; Especially since I’ve been down inside of the the nyc system many times; That place is awesome 👏; This video piece is awesome; Many thanks for all your time and work; Awesome buddy 👍

@suspicioustumbleweed4760 2 года назад

You got so many semi colons it’s like a bunch of trucks with organs in them or something tss tss

@earljohnson2676 2 года назад

I was a builder mover for 15 years and they probably had some cracks inside that happens . You would have to dig under it to fit your beams n cribbing then you put your main beams in first then your cross beams and put cut blocks on the cross beams with shim and pump up a little to see how it’s raising n is sured up and you can start . We never did buildings like that would have to be a custom job

@Nomadcreations 2 года назад

WOW What a phenominal Situation Lifting Humungus Buildings & with No damage; & Hauling In all that fill !!!! sad the Lives lost In the Fire!!

@Kilroy_washere 2 года назад

Neat

@WalterKiefer Год назад

None other than George Pullman got his start raising Chicago's buildings.

@ItsTacosDude 2 года назад

Its weird how i can be born and grow up here and never hear about any of this stuff

@carstarsarstenstesenn 2 года назад

so much of Chicago's history gets forgotten, for better or worse.

@StevenTorrey Год назад

The engineering skill....

@ericw357 2 года назад

2:07 Low water table? I am confused, would you mean high water table?

@chooch1995 2 года назад

You’re not confused, the narrator is....

@0fficialdregs 2 года назад

i think location @20:46 , McCook??, is one that is below a highway my family used to drive across in the past

@flameboy3717 2 года назад

Yeah I believe so, i drive over it every weekend since I was child. Nothings changed really over the past decade or more

@BitchinSpectre 2 года назад

imagine lifting buildings instead of the streets! 916!

@mpetersen6 2 года назад

They did raise street levels. Then the buildings needed to be jacked up to match the new street level.

@BitchinSpectre 2 года назад

@@mpetersen6 "needed" i guess just adding doors to the formally second floors would have been to easy...it's cool. they can do it the hard way if they want.