A sinkhole opened up in a South Side neighborhood in Chicago swallowing part of the West 124th Street and South Wentworth Avenue asphalt on Sunday night.

A water main break caused a 14-feet-deep sinkhole growing overnight and overtaking half of the street by Monday morning.

"It's scary," Deloris Alexander said, resident whose house sits in front of the hole. "The first thing thatn came to my mind is that everything would sink right in."

Chicago Water Department turned off the water to a two-block radius temporarily as it tried to repair it.

The water broke into some of the basements around it flooding them with as much as two feet of depth.

The 20-by-80-foot hole appears to have started when a pipe leak eroded and washed out the drain and support from under the road.

Officials expect to have the street repaired by the end of the week.