8 May 1988, the mother’s day fire in the Hinsdale Illinois telephone company central office. Because that office was a major fiber optic hub, it disrupted communications all over northeast Illinois including O’hare and Midway airports, the railroads, data and business traffic, the lottery, and millions of phone calls that never went through. The people of Hinsdale also had no phone and data service for weeks.
8 May 1988, the mother’s day fire in the Hinsdale Illinois telephone company central office. Because that office was a major fiber optic hub, it disrupted communications all over northeast Illinois including O’hare and Midway airports, the railroads, data and business traffic, the lottery, and millions of phone calls that never went through. The people of Hinsdale also had no phone and data service for weeks.