The date of Aug. 8 is a real stinker of an anniversary for the city of Chicago.
It’s the infamous day in 2004 when a tour bus with the Dave Matthews Band dumped 800 pounds of human waste from the Kinzie Street Bridge into the Chicago River — and right onto an open-air tourist boat.
There was “stunned silence initially. Then sort of this horrible realization as they began to smell themselves as to what happened,” a Boston man told the Chicago Tribune for the newspaper’s original report published 18 years ago. “It was horrific.”
The Chicago Architecture Foundation, which was running the boat tour, gave the passengers who were covered in the “brownish-yellow” substance the works — it refunded their tickets as well as comped their dry cleaning and rides back to their hotels so they could shower off.