Cool 😎

I was going to Thornridge 30 years ago and when the little rumbles would happen we knew it was the quarry.

same

6 years later same

I always thought it was a quarry.

This was always the final intentions of the site, obviously they had to remove the stone to create the basin and were able to recuperate money by selling the rock

@@benpeterson1238 cool

@@benpeterson1238 So far sighted of them to have started this while 95% of the City didn't even exist! All the new drainage systems they are quarrying out over the last 150 years to make even larger reservoirs, its amazing!

Gelato Jack It was a stone quarry. 🙄

@@DanStratocaster1 agreed

Limestone mine now city of chicago renting then to collect and clean billions gallons rain water before dumped In chicago river to go south to Mississippi River 😎

it was a quarry beforehand.

Shawn Allen im sure you are aware but Houston topography doesn’t allow that due to it being near to sea level. Also, this quarry is roughly ten miles away from the city. We have multiple ones across the Chicagoland area that serves the respective communities of our city. I visited Houston often as I have relatives down there and I know you guys have two large reservoirs west of Houston with a drainage system of bayous. Hopefully the engineers will figure out a solution for all the flooding that Houston gets as its been a major problem for decades and only getting worse due to climate change. I love Houston as a second city and would hate something like hurricane harvey happening again.

it used to be a quarry

It's always been a stone quarry, it's been repurposed now.

+Xpry on I80 on the north side of the highway

You never heard of the deep tunnel? You must live under a rock.

This reservoir is located in Thornton Illinois, 27 miles directly South of downtown. I-80 runs through the center of the old quarry, the Northern side will be the reservoir and the other Southern half will remain a active limestone quarry.

If you've ever driven to Indiana the expressway goes directly over the quarry where the entrance is.

@@Machiave11i yup

yes

It's a secret hideout for fish

Yea Ken block and mad mike

Lmfao I had to rewatch it to get it

That’s the most negative shit I’ve heard about the greatest water reclamation plan man has ever seen. I don’t care what it takes, this is a massive benefit to all people in the Northern Mid-West community. It is probably the most important project the USA has ever done, especially since the Great Lakes are one of the largest fresh water supplies in the world.

Here in St. Louis it's known as "Nepotism". The cost is factored in and most people don't even know.

@@stiffneck2090 nepotism, when you get a job or advantage through someone you know. Tell me one person who doesn’t do this. Answer: not one person on this Earth.

Yea ok hater, Chicago has the largest water project in the world to keep water clean and flowing. Wherever you’re from sucks I’m sure of this.

You are delusional.

_ soylentgreenfairy _ 😂

Lol Nestle

Someone's tinfoil hat is on too tight.

@@ghost307 google Lake Michigan pipeline? The idea been disc used fed for over 25 years