Ukrainian Village

This guide to Ukrainian Village in Chicago digs into the neighborhood's flooding problem, tracing it back to developer William Kerfoot's rushed 1870s construction of worker cottages after the Great Chicago Fire, and to Chicago's combined sewer system that still runs beneath these streets. It follows the storm of July 2025, when rain fell at up to two inches an hour and streets nearby vanished under water. Listen for what firefighters found near a Metra viaduct that night.