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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Amelia Neath

Sinkhole swallows up soccer fields in Illinois park

Alton Parks and Recreation

A soccer field in Illinois situated above a mine has been closed after a giant sinkhole swallowed the ground up, leaving a gaping 100-foot-wide crater in the middle of a community park.

Surveillance footage captured the moment that the 100-foot-wide sinkhole opened the ground up and started to swallow the artificial turf, and one of the soccer field’s light towers, before it completely vanished into the ground below.

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