Does Chicagos Undertown, as depicted in Jim Butchers Dresden Files novels, actually exist?
March 19, 2009 Dear Cecil: In the Dresden Files series of books, which are set in Chicago, author Jim Butcher posits an entire world beneath the present-day city called Undertown. He says Chicago, being built on marshy ground, kept sinking. A road would be built, then sink, and another would be built on top of it often with a latticework over the old one, making a tunnel out of the original road. Buildings were supposedly built with this sinking phenomenon in mind, with a fancy entrance on the second floor called a Chicago entrance. As the building sank into the ground, the second floor would become the ground floor, and the old ground floor would become the basement. I assume this isn’t really happening, but I figured if anyone would know for sure, it’d be you. Please give me the Straight Dope on Chicago’s Undertown. DogMom, via the Straight Dope Chicago Message Board Cecil Adams replies: You left out a few details, Mom: (1) The bestselling Dresden Files novels ten have been published
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