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Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation

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102 points Brajeshwar | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 01:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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gdubs ◴[03 Sep 25 04:25 UTC] No.45112240[source]▶
Time to raise it up again:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago

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ornornor ◴[03 Sep 25 05:01 UTC] No.45112392[source]▶
> Consequently, the practice of putting the old multi-story, intact and furnished wooden buildings—sometimes entire rows of them en bloc—on rollers and moving them to the outskirts of town or to the suburbs was so common as to be considered nothing more than routine traffic.

Incredible!

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skeezyboy ◴[03 Sep 25 11:21 UTC] No.45114455[source]▶
Im used to seeing wooden sheds on main st, but how were they able to lift a brick building off the ground, did they not have foundations built a few metres into the ground?
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1. defrost ◴[03 Sep 25 11:32 UTC] No.45114524[source]▶
Using common old 19th century Victorian Britain tools; the jack screw, masonry chisel, greased boards, et al .. all that's required is to cut and separate the course above the foundations.