Chaos Divers locate more than 90 submerged cars in Chicago River system

CBS ^ | 09 03 2025 | Marissa Sulek

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More than 90 cars were reported found in the Chicago River system on Wednesday.

CBS News Chicago rode along Wednesday with Chaos Divers, the dive crew searching for the cars.

The Chaos Divers team travels the country looking for cars involved in cold cases. This week, they have been traveling the Chicago River system — from Diversey Parkway on the North Branch to Cicero Avenue on the Sanitary and Ship Canal.

"We have 10 missing persons cases in Chicago," said Chaos Divers manager Lindsay Bussick. "But our focus is Edward and Stephania Andrews."

It was May 15, 1970 — more than 55 years ago — when Edward and Stephania Andrews, both 62, left a cocktail party at a Sheraton Hotel on Michigan Avenue. They got in their car and were never seen again.

But as the Chaos Divers team were looking for the husband and wife, they came across dozens of other cars.

"Once we kind of reached that like 50, you know, 60 number point, it was kind of, 'OK, this is even a little more than we had expected to find,'" said Bussick.

Bussick said the Chaos Divers found more than 90 cars in the depths of the Chicago River system over the past few days. To find the cars, the dive team uses a command center equipped with sonar so they can see the cars before they dive in.

If they locate a car, they could pull it out themselves. But on Wednesday afternoon, they called Chicago police to pull out a Nissan sedan that Bussick said was damaging boats.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chaosdivers; chicago; edwardandrews; godsgravesglyphs; illinois; parkingtickets; river; stephaniaandrews

[posterchild]

It sounds like a valet didn’t get tipped well enough.

[1Old Pro]

crime ridden.

[Delta 21]

Hey! That ‘68 flop-top Caddie is mine. That was a good car. I want it back.

[Gay State Conservative]

Some time ago there was a group of guys om youtube who used to search rivers and lakes for people who disappeared. They had a boat and some sonar equipment and did it all over the country. They found many cars that had been submerged for years...and sometimes they found bodies in them. It was pretty spooky.

[Red Badger]

Big Jim Walker ? IZZAT YOU?..................... 😎

[Opinionated Blowhard]

They are diving in the rivers around Chicago? I’m surprised that they didn’t find 90 bodies.

[Sirius Lee]

That's a lot of former associates.

[Rennes Templar]

Maybe they’ll find Jimmy Hoffa in a back seat with part of a piano around his neck.

[Vaduz]

Looks like a Vote Democrat paster a keeper.

[dinodino]

Good old Shitcago.

[dfwgator]

[Iron Munro]

Chi-Congo - It’s a toddling town

Now days they don’t take the effort to hide their victims in the river.

They just leave them to bleed out on the streets.

[Reily]

How many of them have people in their trunks?

[jimpick]

I am waiting for Geraldo Rivera. He will find something I hope.

[dfwgator]

[mund1011]

They are diving in the rivers around Chicago? I’m surprised that they didn’t find 90 bodies.

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I don’t think they pulled the cars out yet, perhaps I’m wrong.

[Bon of Babble]

This week, they have been traveling the Chicago River system — from Diversey Parkway

I read this as "Diversity" Parkway.

Far more fitting...

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is probably why the Prixster doesn’t want President Trump poking his nose around in Chicongo.

[blackdog]

Nothing gets “stolen”, faster than a Mercedes-Benz on an eight year loan, needing some repairs. BMW’s as well.