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Chicago transformer fire Wacker/Dearborn

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Fri Sep 15 03:39:10 2000

A fire in a tranformer vault required the Chicago fire department
cutting power to three buildings 55 W. Wacker Drive (also called 222
N Dearborn), 39 N. LaSalle St. and 30 N. Clark St.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/article/0,2669,2-46923,FF.html

The Ameritech NAP is a few blocks away on Randolph Street.  There are several
ISPs with offices and POPs in the immediate vicinity.  Automobile traffic was
a mess in the area, but it didn't affect any networks as far as I know.