Chicago Timeline: 1900 Flow of the Chicago River reversed
3 users like thisSelected 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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Chicago
a History
Chicago-New Orleans
the Lakes, to the Gulf
The Chicago River
a Natural and Unnatural History
Sanitation Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis
the Case of Chicago
So They Reversed the River
a History of the Construction of the Main Channel and Improvements to the Reversa of the Chicago River
The Waterway From the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico
America's Greatest Need; Facts and Records of a Century
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