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This Used to Be a Jeep Before It Met a Windy Demise

By Stephanie Lulay | February 25, 2016 5:58pm
 A week after harsh winds blew an entire wall over the street, a smashed SUV still sits on the Near West Side. 
A week after harsh winds blew an entire wall over the street, a smashed SUV still sits on the Near West Side. 
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NEAR WEST SIDE —  A week after harsh winds blew an entire wall down, a smashed SUV still sits on the Near West Side.

The red Jeep Grand Cherokee was destroyed by a wall that collapsed from a construction site at Walnut and Wood streets Feb. 19, Chicago Fire Department officials confirmed last week. No injuries were reported in the incident.

On Thursday, a woman who was leaving work at Ri-Del Manufacturing, 1754 W. Walnut St., confirmed it was her SUV that was smashed. She subsequently met with a man who identified himself as the building's owner.

Reporter Stephanie Lulay describes seeing the crushed Jeep up-close.

A stretch of Walnut Street where the SUV is parked is now blocked off by construction tape. The wind accident occurred near Like Minds Brewing and a block from Goose Island Brewery. 

Gusts swirling of up to 69 miles per hour wreaked havoc across town last Friday, shattering the windows of Wacker Drive office towers.

A week after harsh winds blew an entire wall over the street, a smashed SUV still sits on the Near West Side. [dnainfo/Stephanie Lulay]

A wall collapsed from the construction site at Walnut and Wood streets Feb. 19. [DNAinfo/Stephanie Lulay]

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