Posted on March 4, 2015 by WBEZ ChicagoCurious City - Building Skyscrapers on Chicago’s Swampy Soil Engineers once compared Chicago’s soggy soil to jelly cake. How did they build a forest of skyscrapers on it? Attached audio [audio/mpeg]: 20210127123157-building-skyscrapers-on-chicagos-swampy-soil_ljaffe.mp3