Every big city has its iconic structures.

San Francisco has the Golden Gate Bridge.

New York City, the Statue of Liberty.

Chicago has Buckingham Fountain.

If you can't picture it, imagine water cascading down a wedding cake-shaped fountain.

As majestic, greeny bronze seahorses surround a stream of water

shooting to seemingly impossible heights and that pump just goes directly up and out for the

center jet and that's 1500 gallons of water a minute that's the pump that gets the spout up to 150 feet

i'm jason mark and we're going to take you into the guts of Buckingham Fountain

and figure out how it works.

And later in the show, we'll hear the dirty details about why Chicago has so many alleys.

It has a lot to do with the most common form of transportation in the 1800s.

Well, the horse has the inflow and outflow problems.

You have to bring in a lot of hay.

You have to muck out a lot of manure.

You know, the kind of stuff you wouldn't want to crawl through on your way to a night

out in the city.

But first, reporter Chloe Prasinos tells the story of the fountain one writer referred to as

the lyric of the lake. That now, you have the power to do even more.

If every high fidelity member increase their monthly gift by just

$3 or more, together we could fully replace the $3 million in federal funding that's currently

at risk. Your increased support will help offset that potential loss and keep this people-powered

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