Mystery Boat: Alone and Idle in a Waterlogged Corner of Chicago

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2015

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Ever see this rusty old freighter off the Bishop Ford Expressway? Its backstory says a lot about the Great Lakes shipping industry.

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0:00.0	When were the...
0:03.7	What school's...
0:06.0	Who decides what the next...
0:08.0	Where's that story?
0:09.3	Why they give the look?
0:11.2	What is this?
0:13.6	It's a curious city.
0:14.8	Where WBEZ answers your questions about Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:21.6	I'm Maribonite, and today I'm looking into a massive question.
0:25.9	Have you ever seen it from the Bishop Ford Expressway?
0:28.5	That big, rusty boat on the Calumet River?
0:31.8	Our questioner, Logan Square resident Samantha Cruz, was out for a leisurely boat ride with her family on the river
0:37.4	when, a giant old hulk of a ship hove into view, seemingly a resident Samantha Cruz was out for a leisurely boat ride with her family on the river when a
0:38.5	giant old hulk of a ship hove into view, seemingly abandoned, covered in rust.
0:43.7	We made jokes about it, like haunted ship, like what's going out with the haunted ship?
0:48.6	So I set off to find out, what's the ship doing now? And why doesn't it ever move?
0:56.1	After some research, I discover it's called CTC number one. But a name's not enough. So to get a closer look, I head to an
1:02.1	industrial swath on the southeast side. Alongside the expressway, there's just this dirt road
1:07.4	with an entrance to the port where the ship is docked. There, an affable security guard tells me I'm trespassing.
1:13.5	No, I don't really know a lot about that ship.
1:15.4	I've been here 27 years.
1:17.5	That ship's been here.
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