Lifting up an Entire City With Jacks | Tales From the Bottle
Sadly not a story about history’s strongest man, but lifting an entire city fourteen feet with jackscrews is still pretty interesting!
“During the 1850s and 1860s, engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of the level of central Chicago. Streets, sidewalks, and buildings were physically raised on jackscrews. The work was funded by private property owners and public funds.”
More on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt93hxFmjppL5nLRAX94UrA
Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/qxir
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/qxir
Twitter: https://twitter.com/QxirYT
Discord: https://discord.gg/jZzvvwJ
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/qxiryt/
Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Qxir/
@Qxir
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt93hxFmjppL5nLRAX94UrA
Merch: teespring.com/stores/qxir
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/qxir
Twitter: https://twitter.com/QxirYT
Discord: https://discord.gg/jZzvvwJ
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/qxiryt/
Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Qxir/
@davidsp5936
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
They also made their river run backwards. They also turn it green. On purpose.
@arulajoy8060
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
How did they put the jack beneath the building … I am not able to visualise ..😅😅
@kellymountain
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
This and a lot of your older videos have autogenerated Viatnemese captions instead of English ones. You should probably change them at some point, for the sake of accessibility and people who can't watch your videos with sound for one reason or another.
@ChrisKorkeeConrad
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
610k views and only 30k likes I wonder if it's because he starts off by attacking the city that people are most likely to be from when searching for a video of this type?
@tuti5811
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
37
@jomarlutching5311
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
I Can't Believe it, I always Think and imagine how they put the jack under the Building…
@suqqmadiq2604
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
0:11 ill tell you right now its not the cold that makes chicgo a shitehole. Its the shite that lives there.
@OSTChuo
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
Chicaho isn't as bad as people think it is. Nor is it as dangerous as people think.
@TeW33zy
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
Fun fact: In WW2 16.2 million Americans served in the Military. That is the population of 11 American States. Therefore, the U.S deployed every resident from Alaska, North Dakota, Wyoming, Vermont, Delaware, South Dakota, Idaho, Hawaii, Utah, Kansas and Arkansas which across these 11 states counts for roughly 16.2 million residents.
@TeW33zy
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
Fun fact, Minnesota is colder than Chicago.
@SteveM000100
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
The Charlie Chaplin etc are effects…
@6400az
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
Like today , except with cell phones….5:33
@heckzotica
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
Where did the money for this come from?
@disdurbed100
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
0:15 it’s not worth visiting stay away. Far away.
@Sustainone
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
I’m in Chicago, come on over, it great!
@mollymcdade4031
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
Fun fact: those 3 movie stunts you showed, only one was 'real'
– Harold Lloyd was dangling off the clock tower but just under him was a crash mat built to break his fall
– Chaplin was rollerskating near a ledge, but it was a painting on the floor with forced perspective
– Buster Keaton was really on that train, because Buster Keaton didn't fuck around
@Mikehawkhurtsyou
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
I really like your sense of humor you must take after the old man.
@CaptainDookiepost
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
4:34 — Thank you. My life is complete.
@StrikeEagleDirtCar
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
I'd rather have warm train tracks than the exploding city buses you're used to over there
@noewaeda
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
anybody else notice that the autogenerated captions are not only awful, but also say "vietnamese" despite seeming to be mostly english words that occasionally sound vaguely like the words in the video
@robertbrindley8948
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
Chicago can't put a bench in for a year and a half anymore ðŸ˜
@lorddenti
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
this is nuts
@arknark
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
People are impressive sometimes
@BIGhappyG33
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
It dawns on me that Qxir hasn’t done a video on the moving of Hatteras Lighthouse. It has many similarities to this tale
@ImNotCreativeEnoughToMakeUser
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
That's pretty… jacked up
@damuffin91
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
Raising a building with jacks is honestly not that rare. It's still done in modern times.
@someguy-k2h
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
These businesses must have been just empty rooms with no water or electricity. Ah, the good old days when things were great. You didn't have sanitation, running water, electricity or modern medicine. Just wait a few months and the US will be great again.
@ricardog.s2505
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
So Chicago is basically the video of "Walking Contradiction" by Green Day
@not5541
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
stillwater 💀💀
@liamdegusman7604
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
This Qxir Fcker laughs like me ^^ 😃 😄
@gustavolopes5094
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
Take notes, Venice.
@AmirChills
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
you guys think he visited chicage yet?
@TheMrCheezlezombie
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
I live near Chicago. Do not go. It's a worthless sh!t hole of a city. Nothing worthwhile to do there, unless you like getting robbed.
@YanestraAgain
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
It still sounds unbelievable.
@masterimbecile
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
4:40 fakk sehhhk
@save7597
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
America is an engineering Marvel itself
@FredMyrna-x2f
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
Johnson Ruth Anderson Jason Walker Karen
@maxbester5524
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
still water 💀
@matthewczech2631
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
Nowadays in Chicago we’re trying to extend one of our metro lines and it costs A BILLION DOLLARS A MILE
@kolponajosna
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
Garcia Patricia Taylor Sharon Walker Angela
@oijosh6286
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
the closed captions on this are wild , dunno if it's the oirish brogue or what but i'm getting total gibberish, half of it in what looks like thai or malaysian !!!
@ZackBurnsOG
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
2:35 Sounds like whoever came up with this plan had a few screws loose themself! Ha ha ha …. I'll let myself out.
@jtdavis62
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
I think there's no god and the universe is just laughing at us.
@Lolaughvi
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
Funny story, I live in a building where the backyard is about 8 feet below the sidewalk. So it seems with buildings tall enough they just raised the street and sidewalk
@JordaneseTyphoon-jk6fr
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 pm
This has actually been done several times in several other cities, including Sacramento and Galveston, Texas
Comments are closed.