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Chicago Tonight | October 29, 2012 12:05 pm

Look out below!  Why are some Chicago neighborhood homes below street level? Geoffrey Baer tells us more in this week's edition of Ask Geoffrey.
 

Related Links: 
Encyclopedia of Chicago article on Report on Under-Sidewalk Toilets, 1936
Encyclopedia of Chicago article on Street Grades, Raising
Gaper's Block article on City Streets: How Chicago Raised Itself Out of the Mud and Astonished the World
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