As we do our silly Chicago tradition of dyeing the river a violent shade of green, I think it's a good time to remind people that our ancestors *reversed the flow of the river* to provide safe drinking water from Lake Michigan and earlier, in the 1860's, *lifted the entire city* to improve drainage and public health.

Remember that any time someone says heat pumps and renewable energy are hard.

Raising of Chicago - Wikipedia

@TechConnectify What the actual... "Traveller David Macrae wrote, “Never a day passed during my stay in the city that I did not meet one or more houses shifting their quarters. One day I met nine. Going out Great Madison Street in the horse cars we had to stop twice to let houses get across.” The function for which such a building had been constructed would often be maintained during the move, with people dining, shopping and working in these buildings as they were rollered down the street."

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It's weird how this still happens in Chicago! I watched them move a turn of the century house (which had been given protected status because it was the last of that historical neighborhood) in the near south side from its original site on a vacant lot to a different spot by McCormick and it was really awesome.