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Downers Grove storm sewer recovery

Two contractors became trapped in a Downers Grove storm sewer during severe weather; one was rescued and one remained missing.

Missing person
last updated 29 July 2026 · 1 sources
Confirmed facts
7
Open questions
4
Known rescued
1
Known missing
1
Latest source
27 Jul 2026
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Case file D C zero one zero six, Downers Grove storm sewer recovery. According to CBS Chicago, at about twelve fifty p.m. on July twenty-seventh, twenty twenty-six, Downers Grove police officers were flagged down by a worker at a storm sewer construction site in the eight hundred block of Curtiss Street. CBS Chicago reported that workers said two contract workers were trapped below street level in the sewer. CBS Chicago reported that the Downers Grove Fire Department responded and began a technical rescue. CBS Chicago also reported that a line of severe storms moved into the Chicago area late Monday morning, and that Downers Grove experienced some of the strongest weather. Village officials, according to CBS Chicago, said one worker was rescued about two hundred feet from the original point of entry and taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in good condition. Village officials said the second worker remained missing, and that the operation had shifted from rescue to recovery because dangerous water conditions limited search efforts. It remains unconfirmed whether the missing contractor has been located, whether either contractor has been identified, which company or project employed them, and how the workers became trapped. This has been an automated reading of case file D C zero one zero six at developing case dot com. Every fact you heard names a public source.

Timeline of what's confirmed7 entries
27 July 2026, about 12:50 p.m.
Downers Grove police officers were flagged down by a worker at a storm sewer construction site in the 800 block of Curtiss Street, where workers reported that two contract workers were trapped below street level in the sewer.
CBS Chicago
27 July 2026
The Downers Grove Fire Department responded and began a technical rescue.
CBS Chicago
27 July 2026
CBS Chicago reported that a line of severe storms moved into the Chicago area late Monday morning and that Downers Grove experienced some of the strongest weather.
CBS Chicago
27 July 2026
Village officials said Downers Grove had been under a tornado warning for a period and had reports of localized flooding, downed tree limbs and storm-related debris across the community.
CBS Chicago
27 July 2026
Village officials said one worker was rescued from the storm sewer about 200 feet from the original point of entry and was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in good condition.
CBS Chicago
27 July 2026
Village officials said the second worker remained missing.
CBS Chicago
27 July 2026
Village officials said the fire department had transitioned from a rescue mission to a recovery mission, and that dangerous water conditions made it difficult to continue search efforts until conditions were safe.
CBS Chicago
Open questionsunconfirmed · not conclusions
Has the missing contractor been recovered or otherwise located since the latest trusted report found here?unconfirmed · unconfirmed
Have officials publicly identified either contractor?unconfirmed · unconfirmed
Which company or public project employed the contractors?unconfirmed · unconfirmed
Have officials released a cause or sequence explaining how the workers became trapped?unconfirmed · unconfirmed
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