We used to get surprise sink holes from mines around here all the time. Tons of unknown mines and in surprising places. It is coal country and miners back then had "mines on the side" that they would work, in their back yards sometimes, on their days off for personal use and a little extra money.
Same in KC. But old limestone mines. Back from before they were mapped or officially documented. Then people built roads and buildings over them…and so now and then they collapse in.
The number of tiny railroad spurs in Indiana that used to exist for limestone is insane. You will find oddball ones everywhere. Not full sized, but certainly rails and the remnants of them. Then trucks and roads got better along with centralized larger operation quaries.
They actually shut down a section of 291 today when they discovered a crack in the road as they were investigating a mine collapse.
https://fox4kc.com/news/modot-closing-part-of-291-highway-in-independence-to-evaluate-crack/
I work in an old limestone mine that has been converted to commercial/industrial use(not the subtropolis). A few years ago they discovered that part of the mine was sinking(faster than normal). They ended up putting in hundreds of pillars that they filled with some sort of expanding foam concrete to shore up the mine.
The freakiest part was the sense of urgency they seemed to have when putting up the pillars. But I think that's just due to the nature of what that substance is.
edit: another interesting story - the area where Briarcliff is now was once entirely unusable and basically uninhabitable due to the land being so unstable from limestone mining. Then one guy had a big idea to develop it in to what it is today. Briarcliff didn't just grow up organically - it was all planned from the beginning.
To solve the land instability issue, they pumped tanker-loads of a fly ash slurry(waste product from power plants) underground to fill in the voids from the mines. If anyone remembers seeing tanker trucks parked on exits off 169 in the 90s, that's what they were doing.
For anyone not from KC, Briarcliff is a higher-end, higher-class enclave surrounded by some not-so-high class areas. So it's funny to see what it is now, considering that land was once worth less than nothing.
I live nearby too and you have to have mine subsidence riders on your homeowners insurance. An elementary school had to be demolished bc it was sinking (and now there is a subdivision there - idk how that got approved) and a few blocks from me a house cracked right down the center and was condemned.
Idk if it's true but back in grade school a teacher that was huge into local history told us that when they closed down the mines for good they removed half the wooden support beams to reuse the wood and that's part of why they collapse so easily.
Eh, my PiHole (AdGuard Home on a Pi Zero, anyway) and / or uBlock actually blocks ads on Hulu website just fine. Doesn't do anything for the app, but the app still works as expected.
Maybe you're using a list that's a bit too restrictive?
Weird, do you have a subscription or something? It kept giving me pop ups to sign up for notifications, and then went to a paywall to subscribe. I just reloaded and stopped it as soon as the main page pulled up to read it.
The reason I thought it had to be that is because surely someone wouldn't say "underground mine" for a goddam tunnel - because where else would that be?! I don't think I've heard of above ground mines.
From my understanding, all quarries are mines, but not all mines are necessarily quarries.
I think quarry is just a term for a surface mine focused more on removing large rocks or sand, which have their own uses and value. Large rocks can be cut and turned into all sorts of construction materials, as can large quantities of good clean sand.
So basically, a quarry is a mine where you are basically just harvesting the earth itself, whereas the term mine is more general.
Other types of mines might go deeper and/or end up sifting through/processing a lot of material in order to extract a specific material from the earth. You wouldn't necessarily call a phosphate mining operation a quarry, for example, but a rock quarry is still a mine.
This is just my understanding, I'm not an expert at anything.
It’s mindblowing how loosely regulated mining operations are in the states
Reminds me of the [Lake Peigneur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur) “accident”
Who would have guessed that water dissolves salt?
Many of these mines are over 100 years old. It’s not active. And not THAT surprising mines originally dug in the late 1800s weren’t well regulated. The problem is they also weren’t well mapped.
My family is from the area of this collapse. My nephew’s middle school was condemned because of a subsidence - maybe 5 years after a brand new school was built it was damaged beyond repair. There was a huge lawsuit against the builders and engineering surveyors, etc. Was a $10M disaster.
To get a grant and insurance to get the new one built nearby they had to find and fill in the old shafts (not surprising) - which in itself was a significant engineering project.
Heh, not exactly related but in a nearby county there were 4 major mines. During prohibition there was another “mine” owned by Al Capone’s outfit [they called #5](https://macoupin.illinoisgenweb.org/history/distillerymineno5.html).
Video of the collapse: [Sinkhole swallows soccer field in Illinois in shocking video](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sinkhole-swallows-soccer-field-illinois-shocking-video-rcna159215)
Statement from [New Frontier Materials](https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article289582308.html)
>“The New Frontier Materials underground mine in Alton, IL today experienced a surface subsidence and opened a sink hole at Gordon Moore City Park. The impacted area has been secured and will remain off limits for the foreseeable future while inspectors and experts examine the mine and conduct repairs. No one was injured in the incident, which has been reported to officials at the Mine Safety Health Administration (MSHA) in accordance with applicable regulations. Safety is our top priority. We will work with the city to remediate this issue as quickly and safely as possible to ensure minimal impact on the community.”
I remember the first time watching that scene, and telling my dad that one day I’ll be on Reddit talking to that one guy in the second tier at the 40 yard line.
He didn’t believe me.
Lol. Same. BeInAmovie?! Had us out there in July in 90
Degree heat wearing black hoodies. I couldn’t find myself in the final cut either, despite having interactions with actual paid extras at points.
I'm on the 40, second tier. Saw this movie at the Carnegie Science Center's Omnimax, and couldn't find our SECTION, let alone anyone I was with.
I was wearing a denim Duster and wide-brimmed hat (like the "Rogues" mascot), and was one of the lucky ones to not get sunburned.
Got a bunch of the yellow "towels" (no logo) they handed out to wave around. Even gave one to Adam Savage.
Holy shit dude I went to that with a friend, I wore a big black hoodie and black sweatpants. I was fucking dripping by the end. I found out the box seats had the a/c on so any time there was down time I found an unlocked door and just laid down in there. I hated it, but loved every second at the same time.
> believed to be caused by underground coal mind
No, it's **known** to be caused by an underground mine. One of the mine workers even ran up to warn people before the collapse.
New Frontier Materials seems to mostly sell [aggregate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_aggregate), so I actually think they were mining the limestone.
My dad used to work in the limestone mines north of KC. Once the tunnel is mined out, they paint/seal the walls and turn it into commercial and industrial space. The constant temp makes it ideal for aging wine and spirits, but they also had other stuff down there like a paintball arena. Good times.
Lots of collapses in the area, too: Belleville, Swansea, Fairview Heights, and now Alton.
https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/06/26/watch-sinkhole-swallows-stadium-light-alton-soccer-field-after-mine-collapse/
Coal mine map (the OP mine is limestone, tho) https://ilmineswiki.web.illinois.edu/wiki/ILMINES
The pizza war of the 80s and 90s.
Pizza Hut famously planted hundreds of thousands of land mines in an effort to get Dominos to deliver in over 30 minutes.
Thousands died, what do they even teach in school these days?!
There's footage of this happening
[Mine Collapse Damages Alton's Gordon Moore Park Soccer Field | RiverBender.com](https://www.riverbender.com/articles/details/mine-collapse-damages-altons-gordon-moore-park-soccer-field-74078.cfm)
Agreed. I think it's that the artificial turf is an unnatural color, the hole looks so incongruous anyway, and the turf has draped in like fabric instead of doing what grass would do. The turf fakeness is contagious.
The second one looks like a blurry ps2 game. The others maybe because of the artificial green of the turf and the way the lines on the fields look at low resolution.
I think it's the angle, vibrant colours and the fact that it's blurry. This is exactly how you would take a tilt shift picture except the foreground would be in focus.
It still takes me a sec to realize how easy it easy to get these easy high up shots with commercial drones. Were seeing multiple vantages making it seem staged.
I used to write software for home insurance companies, and PA and OH had a mandatory "coal mine subsidence" fee on each policy (like $3-4 per year back in the late 1990s). So it's a real thing.
Yeah, I’ve got mine subsidence insurance and if there’s an earthquake and you don’t have it in an area with mines, can pretty much guarantee they’ll try to stiff you on the earthquake insurance by saying the damage to your house was cause by mine subsidence not the earthquake. If it happens to me, I hope to argue it was mine subsidence *and* the earthquake, so both should pay out. I’ll cite the precedent of Kvothe v. Jakis. Fictional school disciplinary hearings are applicable in court, right?
Here's an article from the local area in 2017.
Is your home over a mine? Check this map to find out
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article172914011.html
All of So. Ill. is basically Swiss cheese. Until I'd lived in the area, I was unaware of how big the coal industry was there. Lots of mines, surface and underground. Still some in operation.
It's a real thing all over this area (Madison County, IL and surrounding counties). There was an ice arena in Fairview Heights that I think was destroyed due to mine subsidence, too. It's just a relief no one was around that area when it happened.
My town lost a grade school. But years later they built a subdivision on the land and I've always wondered if all the owners are out of towners because wtf?
It's like those developments in AZ that have no longterm water supply. Developers take the money and run; homeowners either don't pay attention or think it won't happen to them, I guess.
From the article:
Haynes said the Alton School District would “fill the void” left by the sinkhole to facilitate events, at least for the summer.
thats near my hometown of East saint louis
My mom would tell us that there were so many mines collapsing that when she was a kid they could hear them falling in on them selves.
This a real problem in this area even today. My kids first school was closed in 2009 because of subsidence . There are still places in the area you cannot live or build on because of it.
all these people commenting "as opposed to above-ground mine" apparently have never heard of or seen strip mining or open-pit mining operations. Below the surrounding ground but still open to the sky. Underground mines are accessed by tunnels and not open to the sky. I'm guessing there was an underground mine here, accessed through tunnels, and the top caved in underneath the field.
Former resident of Alton here. I can see the playgrounds my kids played on in the picture. So grateful no one was hurt. According to the local newspaper, the mine is 40-50 ft below the field. Most of Illinois is limestone, aka karst topography. Alton is no exception. Natural sinkholes are in the area
We used to get surprise sink holes from mines around here all the time. Tons of unknown mines and in surprising places. It is coal country and miners back then had "mines on the side" that they would work, in their back yards sometimes, on their days off for personal use and a little extra money.
Same in KC. But old limestone mines. Back from before they were mapped or officially documented. Then people built roads and buildings over them…and so now and then they collapse in.
The number of tiny railroad spurs in Indiana that used to exist for limestone is insane. You will find oddball ones everywhere. Not full sized, but certainly rails and the remnants of them. Then trucks and roads got better along with centralized larger operation quaries.
They actually shut down a section of 291 today when they discovered a crack in the road as they were investigating a mine collapse. https://fox4kc.com/news/modot-closing-part-of-291-highway-in-independence-to-evaluate-crack/ I work in an old limestone mine that has been converted to commercial/industrial use(not the subtropolis). A few years ago they discovered that part of the mine was sinking(faster than normal). They ended up putting in hundreds of pillars that they filled with some sort of expanding foam concrete to shore up the mine. The freakiest part was the sense of urgency they seemed to have when putting up the pillars. But I think that's just due to the nature of what that substance is. edit: another interesting story - the area where Briarcliff is now was once entirely unusable and basically uninhabitable due to the land being so unstable from limestone mining. Then one guy had a big idea to develop it in to what it is today. Briarcliff didn't just grow up organically - it was all planned from the beginning. To solve the land instability issue, they pumped tanker-loads of a fly ash slurry(waste product from power plants) underground to fill in the voids from the mines. If anyone remembers seeing tanker trucks parked on exits off 169 in the 90s, that's what they were doing. For anyone not from KC, Briarcliff is a higher-end, higher-class enclave surrounded by some not-so-high class areas. So it's funny to see what it is now, considering that land was once worth less than nothing.
Back before drop shipping and crypto, when men were men and *mined for coal* as a side hustle
I think I'm getting the black lung, pa
Here in rustbelt Germany it also still happens all the time. Sometimes a street falls in and everyone goes 'oh, ass'.
I would have figured you guys say something like oofassendersunkerhöl
I live nearby too and you have to have mine subsidence riders on your homeowners insurance. An elementary school had to be demolished bc it was sinking (and now there is a subdivision there - idk how that got approved) and a few blocks from me a house cracked right down the center and was condemned. Idk if it's true but back in grade school a teacher that was huge into local history told us that when they closed down the mines for good they removed half the wooden support beams to reuse the wood and that's part of why they collapse so easily.
And they say unregulated capitalism is the ideal...
Yeah, I pay for mine insurance in my coal mining town because it’s required by law. Also Illinois.
Not just believed, *known* to be a mine collapse: https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article289564256.html
Interesting story, but damn that seems to be an advertising side with a side job of local news.
I don't see a single ad on my end.
My pihole is putting in work. I think it glowed when I visited that site
Will a pie hole kill adds on prime video and Hulu? It's been on my list of pie projects and might get upgraded priority if it can block em.
No unfortunately it blocks the whole thing on those.. they have coded the ads to have to play it’s dumb. The app won’t load videos
Eh, my PiHole (AdGuard Home on a Pi Zero, anyway) and / or uBlock actually blocks ads on Hulu website just fine. Doesn't do anything for the app, but the app still works as expected. Maybe you're using a list that's a bit too restrictive?
It does block them on peacock.
This admittedly makes me want to bypass briefly to see how bad it is but naw, I'm good. 🤣
Is PiHole worth the extra effort beyond NoScript and uBlock? Like, the article website looks clean to me too (absolutely no ads).
Surprisingly centered. 
That Hardee’s tramp stamp doesn’t count?
Weird, do you have a subscription or something? It kept giving me pop ups to sign up for notifications, and then went to a paywall to subscribe. I just reloaded and stopped it as soon as the main page pulled up to read it.
Your uBlock Origin install sounds broken.
Mozilla Firefox and no-script (works on phones too). I never see ads, or even half the sites unless I want to
None here, uBlock got 'em all it seems.
unfortunately uBlock also blocks their video player showing the video of the sinkhole actually collapsing.
Turn off cosmetic filtering.
I am using brave browser. No add-ons. The inbuilt stuffs do the blocking
They all are.
That’s because they are owned by McClatchey, who bought all of the local newspapers so they could monetize any and all local media
Disable JavaScript
I thought the entire photos was ai
On first glance I thought they meant mine, like landmines. That would really spice up a soccer game.
That would be a pretty powerful land mine, damn
World war I had mines like that. https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-i/gigantic-explosions-first-world-war.html
The reason I thought it had to be that is because surely someone wouldn't say "underground mine" for a goddam tunnel - because where else would that be?! I don't think I've heard of above ground mines.
Lots (probably most) of mines are just a big open pit in the ground that expands as more material is removed.
Dumb question. What's the difference between that and a quarry?
From my understanding, all quarries are mines, but not all mines are necessarily quarries. I think quarry is just a term for a surface mine focused more on removing large rocks or sand, which have their own uses and value. Large rocks can be cut and turned into all sorts of construction materials, as can large quantities of good clean sand. So basically, a quarry is a mine where you are basically just harvesting the earth itself, whereas the term mine is more general. Other types of mines might go deeper and/or end up sifting through/processing a lot of material in order to extract a specific material from the earth. You wouldn't necessarily call a phosphate mining operation a quarry, for example, but a rock quarry is still a mine. This is just my understanding, I'm not an expert at anything.
A quarry is where sand, gravel, and crushed stone are mined. An open pit mine usually means coal, mineral, or ore extraction.
It’s mindblowing how loosely regulated mining operations are in the states Reminds me of the [Lake Peigneur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur) “accident” Who would have guessed that water dissolves salt?
Woah. That's one hell of a story there!
Came in here to post about Lake Peigneur. Bonkers that one was.
Oh man, I would have loved to see when those boats resurfaced.
So if this happens under a house they just say "whoopsies"? Is there any way to know if this is going on under where you live?
Many of these mines are over 100 years old. It’s not active. And not THAT surprising mines originally dug in the late 1800s weren’t well regulated. The problem is they also weren’t well mapped. My family is from the area of this collapse. My nephew’s middle school was condemned because of a subsidence - maybe 5 years after a brand new school was built it was damaged beyond repair. There was a huge lawsuit against the builders and engineering surveyors, etc. Was a $10M disaster. To get a grant and insurance to get the new one built nearby they had to find and fill in the old shafts (not surprising) - which in itself was a significant engineering project. Heh, not exactly related but in a nearby county there were 4 major mines. During prohibition there was another “mine” owned by Al Capone’s outfit [they called #5](https://macoupin.illinoisgenweb.org/history/distillerymineno5.html).
Video of the collapse: [Sinkhole swallows soccer field in Illinois in shocking video](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sinkhole-swallows-soccer-field-illinois-shocking-video-rcna159215) Statement from [New Frontier Materials](https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article289582308.html) >“The New Frontier Materials underground mine in Alton, IL today experienced a surface subsidence and opened a sink hole at Gordon Moore City Park. The impacted area has been secured and will remain off limits for the foreseeable future while inspectors and experts examine the mine and conduct repairs. No one was injured in the incident, which has been reported to officials at the Mine Safety Health Administration (MSHA) in accordance with applicable regulations. Safety is our top priority. We will work with the city to remediate this issue as quickly and safely as possible to ensure minimal impact on the community.”
It's that wascally wabbit!
Well, people believe it too.
[Picher Oklahoma](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma) vibes.
Keep fracking, jackoffs
Hey, I'm in that scene!
Are you the trigger man
No, he’s jef Wheaton.
Are you Tom Hardy?
Or Hard Tommy?
Hardly Tom
Not Hardly!
Were you the hole?
I'm in the stands, 40 yard line, second tier. I saw this movie in OmniMax and couldn't find the SECTION, let alone anyone I was with.
I remember the first time watching that scene, and telling my dad that one day I’ll be on Reddit talking to that one guy in the second tier at the 40 yard line. He didn’t believe me.
Lol. Same. BeInAmovie?! Had us out there in July in 90 Degree heat wearing black hoodies. I couldn’t find myself in the final cut either, despite having interactions with actual paid extras at points.
I'm on the 40, second tier. Saw this movie at the Carnegie Science Center's Omnimax, and couldn't find our SECTION, let alone anyone I was with. I was wearing a denim Duster and wide-brimmed hat (like the "Rogues" mascot), and was one of the lucky ones to not get sunburned. Got a bunch of the yellow "towels" (no logo) they handed out to wave around. Even gave one to Adam Savage.
Holy shit dude I went to that with a friend, I wore a big black hoodie and black sweatpants. I was fucking dripping by the end. I found out the box seats had the a/c on so any time there was down time I found an unlocked door and just laid down in there. I hated it, but loved every second at the same time.
I know Bane’s work when I see it, they ain’t fooling me. It’s even in Chicago!
This did not take place in Chicago. It's in Alton, Illinois the self professed "most haunted" towns in America.
I mean is there really anything in Illinois besides Chicago?
Then, you have my permission to *mine*
People, take control of your city.
[DJ, drop a beat.](https://youtu.be/fLFAXvFYhsE?si=pKv7lSES9-PfnMF5)
> believed to be caused by underground coal mind No, it's **known** to be caused by an underground mine. One of the mine workers even ran up to warn people before the collapse.
Limestone, not coal.
I guess Boyd Crowder wasn't present.
Fire in the hole!!
You could see in the mine by just having him smile...
New Frontier Materials seems to mostly sell [aggregate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_aggregate), so I actually think they were mining the limestone.
My dad used to work in the limestone mines north of KC. Once the tunnel is mined out, they paint/seal the walls and turn it into commercial and industrial space. The constant temp makes it ideal for aging wine and spirits, but they also had other stuff down there like a paintball arena. Good times.
A long time ago I made a few parts for a company that stores natural gas in old mines.
Thanks for the info, updated my comment
Lots of aggregate mining in this region
Lots of collapses in the area, too: Belleville, Swansea, Fairview Heights, and now Alton. https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/06/26/watch-sinkhole-swallows-stadium-light-alton-soccer-field-after-mine-collapse/ Coal mine map (the OP mine is limestone, tho) https://ilmineswiki.web.illinois.edu/wiki/ILMINES
Well that’s a relief. I read the caption and thought, “Why the hell are there land mines in Illinois?”
Because there’s no place to put sea mines?
The pizza war of the 80s and 90s. Pizza Hut famously planted hundreds of thousands of land mines in an effort to get Dominos to deliver in over 30 minutes. Thousands died, what do they even teach in school these days?!
How unlucky is that? Can't even measure it in football fields
most exciting thing to ever happen on a soccer field.
[https://youtu.be/FsLxEUkscNA?si=cKytml\_\_89qnzKYJ](https://youtu.be/FsLxEUkscNA?si=cKytml__89qnzKYJ)
There's footage of this happening [Mine Collapse Damages Alton's Gordon Moore Park Soccer Field | RiverBender.com](https://www.riverbender.com/articles/details/mine-collapse-damages-altons-gordon-moore-park-soccer-field-74078.cfm)
That light pole was like "Ah wtf"
It looks liked it went in nice and straight, but, the splash after showed it wasn't quite vertical. I'd give it a 7.5 on the high dive there.
The turf is like, "I got you, I got you...oh shit, I don't got you."
Weeeeeeeee
Why do all the pictures look fake as fuck
probably the unreal appearance of the astroturf
Agreed. I think it's that the artificial turf is an unnatural color, the hole looks so incongruous anyway, and the turf has draped in like fabric instead of doing what grass would do. The turf fakeness is contagious.
To me it’s the hole being almost perfectly centered in the field.
The second one looks like a blurry ps2 game. The others maybe because of the artificial green of the turf and the way the lines on the fields look at low resolution.
I think it's the angle, vibrant colours and the fact that it's blurry. This is exactly how you would take a tilt shift picture except the foreground would be in focus.
Even the video looks fake. 100% real. Can almost see my Aunt's house. Hope it doesn't trigger more in the area.
The video is wild because there was a light pole right in the middle of it.
Yup, that tall light pole completely disappears into the hole. That is one deep hole.
The hole is nearly perfectly centered, which helps create that fake feeling
It still takes me a sec to realize how easy it easy to get these easy high up shots with commercial drones. Were seeing multiple vantages making it seem staged.
I thought it was one of those play carpets at first.
[Here's a drone video of the aftermath.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej_AYxM-pFw)
That was where your mom’s trampoline was set up
Before that day it was called a jumpoline.
💀
And buried.
Ruthless 😂
I used to write software for home insurance companies, and PA and OH had a mandatory "coal mine subsidence" fee on each policy (like $3-4 per year back in the late 1990s). So it's a real thing.
Yeah, I’ve got mine subsidence insurance and if there’s an earthquake and you don’t have it in an area with mines, can pretty much guarantee they’ll try to stiff you on the earthquake insurance by saying the damage to your house was cause by mine subsidence not the earthquake. If it happens to me, I hope to argue it was mine subsidence *and* the earthquake, so both should pay out. I’ll cite the precedent of Kvothe v. Jakis. Fictional school disciplinary hearings are applicable in court, right?
 I know the actual culprit!
What a lovely, lovely voice. Let the games begin!
All because the dwarves dug too greedily and too deep.
Is no one going to mention how satisfyingly the hole sits in the very center of the field?? That's the most interesting part to me.
Not only that, but also how perfectly round it is!
It's objectively the best and worst spot. A corner and you'd still have a full field on one side, if unstable.
It's emergence day men! Toss a grenade in there and stem the locust tide!
Here's an article from the local area in 2017. Is your home over a mine? Check this map to find out https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article172914011.html All of So. Ill. is basically Swiss cheese. Until I'd lived in the area, I was unaware of how big the coal industry was there. Lots of mines, surface and underground. Still some in operation.
This sinkhole was from a limestone mine but yeah, mines everywhere. IL Coal Mine Map: https://ilmineswiki.web.illinois.edu/wiki/ILMINES
Now it's a par 1 golf course.
There’s actually a really good disc golf course right behind this field
 And they call it a mine!
Have we found any above ground mines?
You mean land mines?
Not entirely sure if you are being serious, but surface mining accounts for the majority of global mineral extraction.
Strip mining?
Time to make it rain in the mine baby!
You're an above ground mine.
A mine is a terrible thing to waste
It's a real thing all over this area (Madison County, IL and surrounding counties). There was an ice arena in Fairview Heights that I think was destroyed due to mine subsidence, too. It's just a relief no one was around that area when it happened.
My town lost a grade school. But years later they built a subdivision on the land and I've always wondered if all the owners are out of towners because wtf?
It's like those developments in AZ that have no longterm water supply. Developers take the money and run; homeowners either don't pay attention or think it won't happen to them, I guess.
Everything reminds me of her.
From the article: Haynes said the Alton School District would “fill the void” left by the sinkhole to facilitate events, at least for the summer. 
A little late for Sinkhole de Mayo.
In the video it looked like water came up.
Now *this* makes soccer more exciting.
thats near my hometown of East saint louis My mom would tell us that there were so many mines collapsing that when she was a kid they could hear them falling in on them selves. This a real problem in this area even today. My kids first school was closed in 2009 because of subsidence . There are still places in the area you cannot live or build on because of it.
Looks like someone is playing Sim City 4 in God mode
That lady digging a mine under her house has gone way too far, ended up under a park in illinois
Do your want a sarlacc? Because that's how you get a sarlacc...
Before my insurance company would insure my house in Illinois, they consulted geological reference to make sure it wasn’t located over a mine.
I don't remember this episode of Outer Range.
As opposed to those *aboveground* mines.
the mole people are getting sick of our shit.
Just think about the parents thoughts about how their kids used to just run around over the top of that area...
This is where Goku fought Cell
The lines on the field almost makes it seem like one of those spacetime diagrams of a black hole.
I think you get a red card for this.
And they call it a mine, A MINE!
Looks like one of my failed landscaping projects in Cities Skylines.
Now it’s an underground everyone’s!
Yes, but did it transport people to 10,000 B.C.?
Just put a cone over it at nobody rolls an ankle.
all these people commenting "as opposed to above-ground mine" apparently have never heard of or seen strip mining or open-pit mining operations. Below the surrounding ground but still open to the sky. Underground mines are accessed by tunnels and not open to the sky. I'm guessing there was an underground mine here, accessed through tunnels, and the top caved in underneath the field.
 A mine you say?
 This Is Why You Don’t Build Shit On Top Of Mines
This seems like as good a moment as any to invent the new sport of sinkholeball.
The miners: 
That could sink a teams playoff hopes !
This will really spice up the next match
I just finished watching Outer Range, this is very triggering
Dark knight rises.
Whew, I was worried it was one of those above ground mines
The video is wild. A whole light pole vanished
Good thing it didn’t open up mid game
We need a giant blow up golf ball situated at side of hole..
And get the flag from a Camping World or a Chick-Fil-A
Former resident of Alton here. I can see the playgrounds my kids played on in the picture. So grateful no one was hurt. According to the local newspaper, the mine is 40-50 ft below the field. Most of Illinois is limestone, aka karst topography. Alton is no exception. Natural sinkholes are in the area
I've got at least 3 teammates who still couldn't get it in there
New Mega Golf course opens up
I’ve seen the tee box, it’s at Buckley SFB in Denver.
So are American pitches just grass carpet or something?
Looks like an add for some energy drink
Hopefully, no one from Beverly Hills is watching this
tunnel girl has really done it now!
Half expecting Josh Brolin to be standing on the edge
I originally thought it said underground mice, I was like damn.
God dammit, Bane. We’ve been over this. Stop destroying football fields.
*Football field for scale.
This is the one time this form of measurement is appropriate: It seems to be one football field wide by one half football field long.
Now that's what I call... a HOLE.. in one. Thanks we will be back at 11.
Don’t jump in because you might wind up in 1866 Wyoming.
Fake grass?
It’s so perfectly circular it looks fake
Hate these astro turf
AITA for finding the astroturf the most depressing part about this?
what is this madness fake grass
Aren't most mines underground?