you know what? fuck you *raises your entire city block 5 feet in the air and shuffles the buildings around*
(The actual reasons for this is that moving or lifting the buildings was mostly on the owners' dime, and neighborhoods like Pilsen and Bridgeport tended to have poorer residents, so they just left them like that. The city built sewers and raised the street level, but the buildings remained where they were.)
Another Chicago problem-solving strategy: "hey what if we reversed the flow of the river so all the garbage stopped flowing into the city and Lake Michigan and started flowing out? Would that be hilarious or what?"
