Project management – Case – Disaster Recovery at Marshall Field’s

Case 1  – Disaster Recovery at Marshall Field’s (Another Chicago River Story)

 Early in the morning on April 13, 1992, basements in Chicago’s downtown central business district began to flood. A hole the size of an automobile had developed between the river and an adjacent abandoned tunnel. The tunnel, built in the early 1900s for transporting coal, runs throughout the downtown area. When the tunnel flooded, so did the basements connected to it, some 272 in all, including that of major retailer Marshall Field’s.

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