Pavement Caves In On Cottage Grove Avenue In Kenwood
UPDATED 05/31/11 10:58 a.m.
CHICAGO (CBS) -- The pavement caved in on Cottage Grove Avenue in the Kenwood neighborhood Tuesday morning, prompting an emergency response and reroutes of a city buses.
Police and crews from the Streets and Sanitation Department were sent to the scene of a street cave-in in the 4500 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, according to police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak.
The hole -- which is 6 feet wide and 7 feet deep -- is located on the southwest corner of the intersection, Kubiak said.
The CTA rerouted the No. 4 Cottage Grove Avenue Bus, according to Chicago Transit Authority spokeswoman Kim Myles. No. 4 buses were being rerouted to Drexel Boulevard between 47th and 43rd streets.
By about 9:45 a.m., those reroutes had ended, Myles said.
The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.
