A South Side street has been closed today after a water main that was nearly a century old broke and flooded the street, officials said.
The break of a 24-inch water main occurred about 8:30 a.m. this morning at 47th Street and South Loomis Boulevard in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, according to Tom Laporte, a spokesman for the city Department of Water Management, closing 47th Street between Racine and Ashland avenues.
Loomis, which runs south out of the T-shaped intersection, remains open, he said, except for a small area just south of the intersection. But 47th, which buckled because of the break, is "impassable."
[...]He said no customers in the area are without water service.
Rahm announces a $2.8 billion long-overdue upgrade/repair of Chicago's water system to be paid for by doubling city and suburban water rates, then coincidentally, a 24" main breaks, but no customers are affected. This is just too convenient, says the suspicious mind.