CHICAGO (WBBM) – A diving team that travels the country looking for submerged cars involved in cold cases traversed the Chicago River this week.

The Chaos Divers team searched from Diversey on the north branch of the Chicago River to Cicero via the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Lindsay Bussick is the team’s manager.

“We have 10 missing persons cases in Chicago,” Bussick said.

As they were trying to solve cold cases, they came across dozens of other cars.

“Once we kind of reached that 50, 60 number point, then it was kind of like, ‘OK, this was even a little more than we had expected to find,’” Bussick recalled.

Bussick says they found over 90 cars in the depths of the Chicago river over the last few days.

To find the cars, the team has sonars set up in the command center so they’

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