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Most likely they are referring to the Chicago tube system that was built through a series of tunnels used to deliver goods and coal, and remove ash from, the Loop. It’s know the newspapers kept the tube system active for quite a while, but most of us did not know about these service tunnels until a crew driving new pilings into the Chicago River collapsed one of those tunnels, causing the Great Chicago Flood of 1992.