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Ask Geoffrey: Underground Tunnels

WTTW News | February 17, 2011, 7:00 pm

From World War II bomber jets to failed car experiments, we find out how an expansive area underneath the Ford City Mall in West Lawn connects this neighborhood to its past.

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