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Chicago Timeline: 1900 Flow of the Chicago River reversed

Selected resources found at Chicago Public Library. Engineering feat and political swamp, reversing the river cleaned up Chicago's water and improved transportation, but impacted the Great Lakes ecosystem and angered cities south of Chicago. They had to deal with sewage and pollution flowing away from Lake Michigan and into the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers.

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