Talk:Raising of Chicago

Section about private homes?
The garden level or garden apartment is practically unknown outside of Chicago, and it results from the redesign of houses forced by the city's raising. Most homeowners could not afford to have a home lifted, as the buildings on this page were, so they built steps up to what had once been the second floor. In homes that are divided up into apartments, this leaves a garden apartment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.76.245.253 (talk) 21:25, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Cholera Epidemic Mith?
culminating in the 1854 outbreak of cholera that killed six percent of the city’s population.

That seems to propagate the Chicago 1885 cholera epidemic myth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SCriBu (talk • contribs) 21:51, 29 August 2013 (UTC)


 * It's referring to the 1854 epidemic, which really did happen. --Carnildo (talk) 22:15, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Date confusion 1857 / 1858 advertisement in the Tribune.
Well done Manjel on spotting that the date on the scanned image taken from the Tribune doesn't match the date in the WP text I originally wrote. In fact though, the date appearing in the advertisement in the Tribune is the wrong date. The ad first appeared in the Tribune of January 29th, 1858. I suspect a tired and stressed typist had forgotten that the year had just changed -- it was still only January after all. jonathan riley (talk) 01:09, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

'One source' tag.
I took off M0rphzone's "One source|date=August 2013" tag, as there was no way for me to ascertain how many sources is a sufficient number. Tag causes text to show on article page: "[...] Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page [...]", yet there is nothing on the talk page about the number of sources. Well, at least until now. jonathan riley (talk) 04:10, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Usually articles should have at least 5 different sources that are not from the same website, resource, book or company. In this case, there are only 1 or 2 sources being used with the majority from the Chicago Daily Tribune. Since this is a topic from the 19th century, there are few reliable sources available, so it may be ok but it's generally more helpful to have a wider variety of sources. - M0rphzone (talk) 20:44, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your courteous reply M0rphzone. The article now a total of six text based sources, as well as images. jonathan riley (talk) 21:28, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Removing "One source" tag again. Article has ten named sources: Chicago Tribune Putnam's Monthly Emmett Dedmon's book Besse Louise Pierce's books David Macrae's diary The Times (of London) Daily Alta California Weekly Placer Herald Sturgis' dictionary Mendel's lithograph as well as the unattributed lithograph image of the raising of the Briggs House. Jriley (talk) 00:36, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

Dead links
All the links associated with the site http://users.ox.ac.uk  are dead. 03:23, 6 July 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SittingDuckCasting (talk • contribs)

commons-cat
- still missing? --Itu (talk) 06:08, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Section needed on the technical aspects
It's mentioned in all articles on this subject that jackscrews were used, but it's never mentioned the technical aspects of how they were installed under the buildings. Can someone cite some sources on this and add that information? The "How" is missing proper explanation, and perhaps mentioning the system of foundations for how these early brick buildings were built would be helpful to that explanation. Criticalthinker (talk) 10:54, 11 April 2023 (UTC)