On Friday, June 28, 2019, a crew from Peoples Gas Chicago removed a 10-foot section of a 160-year-old main running under an intersection a few blocks west of Chicago’s Navy Pier and replaced it with a modern plastic natural gas pipe.

The replacement is part of the Peoples Gas System Modernization Program (SMP), a multi-decade effort to improve the long-term safety and reliability of Chicago’s natural gas delivery system by upgrading more than 2,000 miles of deteriorating natural gas pipes.

Watch the removal of the pipeline by clicking on this link: http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE5YMb2cWJM