Video Captures Extent of Back of the Yards Water Main Damage

You're denying the obvious.
The water isn't going down, therefore the drains are clogged!
No matter what the size of the water main, drains a couple of blocks away should have been able to handle it. I could understand the ones right near it overwhelmed by the amount, but not those far away.
In the one shot of 47th, where we see water shooting up, it's only going up a few feet above the street.
My guess is that those ridiculous rain blocker devices may be in the drains there & are clogged up. They can handle rain, but not this.
Another disaster Daley created.

How did this get turned into a bitch session about drains? You realize that water isn't supposed to shoot out of the street at all, right? Whether it goes down the drains is sort of a secondary detail at this point, isn't it?

P.S. You realize that Chicagoans have been using homemade rain blockers for decades, right? The old carpet over half the drain? Daley didn't come up with that idea, and if your basement regular floods when it rains, they seem much smarter than they do if your basement does not flood.

If you're going to brand your video, then at least learn how to edit for clarity & maximum comprehension.
It should have started out with the shot of the water coming up from the break on 47th.

Also, why didn't the water go down the sewers? It seems as every storm drain in that area was clogged with leaves.

It's shocking that storm drains would be clogged with leaves in mid-October.

It's every drain. In Rogers Park where I live, only a few drains are clogged with leaves, there are always ones that are clear.
Either the city isn't sweeping the streets there or the people are bothering to rake any leaves. All over the North Side, I see people raking up leaves that are in the streets, not just on lawns. Out idiot city is alone in the area in letting the leaves wash down the sewers & clogging them. Most of the burbs pick up leaves from the streets to avoid sewer clogs. Chicago actually says they won't sweep streets that have too many leaves on them.
Plus, only about 20% of the trees have lost leaves around me. Many tree varieties won't lose their leaves for several weeks. The yellow sodium vapor street lights fool them into thinking it's still summer & not fall.

It's option #1. Do you honestly believe that other neighborhoods get the same treatment as the North Side?

Rogers Park gets swept once a month, just like 90% of the city. Our drains aren't clogged because the residents make sure the leaves are removed between sweepings.

Your 90% figure is unfortunately overrated but hey...believe what you want.

By the way, how often do you go to the Back of the Yards area? Every week? Have family there?

So...people on the South Side are lazy? I currently live on the South Side. Lived on Logan Boulevard for a decade. I see the same amount of energy going into drain management in both neighborhoods... Zilch.

The gutters on the street outside my window on the northwest side are currently filled with leaves. The gutters on every street I've gone down since the rain on Thursday have been filled with leaves. It's October. Leaves fall. This isn't just a Chicago problem. It happens everywhere there are deciduous trees in a temperate climate.

Second, the video doesn't even show that many sewer drains, and those it shows it doesn't show clearly enough for you to say they're clogged with leaves.