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Blog Post
The Underground Movement to Map Subterranean Chicago
City Lab • October 13, 2017
Every 60 seconds, Americans strike an
underground pipe, according to estimates. Careless homeowners and lazy utility
workers are partly to blame, but so are outdated, inaccurate, or simply
nonexistent records.