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Ask Geoffrey: 2/4

WTTW News | February 4, 2013, 10:59 am

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.

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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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