Downtown Chicago facts
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Over 2000 wild coyotes live in downtown Chicago and help keep the city's rat and goose populations down.
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Meigs Field, a popular airport in Downtown Chicago that was intentionally destroyed in the middle of the night
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844 people drowned in 20 feet of water in the middle of downtown Chicago when their tour boat capsized on the river.
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The Great Chicago Flood 25 years ago started in January but didn't flood the entire downtown until April.
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The SS Eastland, a passenger ship that capsized in it's dock in downtown Chicago, killing 844 people.
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The base-jumping scene in Transformers 3 wasn't done with special effects, but actually filmed with base jumpers in downtown Chicago
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A blimp once caught fire and crashed through the skylight of a bank in downtown Chicago; leading to reform on where aircraft are allowed to fly
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About the Winged Foot Express dirigible accident over downtown Chicago in 1919. It was the deadliest dirigible accident in the USA until the Hindenburg.
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Chicago's old Main Post Office building downtown (at it's time the largest) was initially intended to have a flat roof that would have been used as a plane Landing strip
