Download or read book Chicago Sewerage written by Chicago (Ill.). Board of Sewerage Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City Water City Life written by Carl Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.
Download or read book West by Southwest to Stickney written by Richard Lanyon and published by Lake Claremont Press: A Chicago Joint. This book was released on 2018-03-25 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annexation of 1889 made Chicago's South Side the largest of the city's three sewer districts. With it came such challenges as Hyde Park sewers discharging to Lake Michigan, contamination threats at the Sixty-Eighth Street water intake crib; inadequate sewers and flooding; and the public health disaster of Bubbly Creek, the West Arm of the South Fork. Implementing the mayor's Pure Water Plan to eliminate sewers discharging to the lake involved intense cooperation. The city constructed huge intercepting sewers and a new pumping station, while the Sanitary District of Chicago contributed funding for some of the city's work. Addressing its own priorities, the District enlarged the capacity of the South Branch of the Chicago River, replacing obstructive bridges and widening and deepening the channel to pass enough water to keep Lake Michigan free of sewage and to provide dilution for sewage in the canals and rivers. Extending the Sanitary and Ship Canal and building the hydroelectric powerhouse at Lockport fulfilled the dream of low-cost sustainable power. The creation of what became the massive Stickney plant and sewershed eventually brought the promise of drainage relief to South and West Side residents and eliminated the daily discharge of sewage to the canals and the Des Plaines River. Finally, the Deep Tunnel project is bringing an end to the frequent discharge of sewage tainted stormwater to canals and rivers. This is the story of draining the South and West Sides of Chicago, and western suburbs; of eliminating the stagnant, encrusted cesspool that was Bubbly Creek; and of clearing the politics of out of the District to deliver taxpayers efficient, professional, and reliable service.
Download or read book Pollution of Illinois and Mississippi Rivers by Chicago Sewage written by Marshall Ora Leighton and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Disposal of the Sewage of the Sanitary District of Chicago written by Alvord, Burdick & Howson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin Alvord Burdick Howson eningeers Chicago The disposal of the sewage of the sanitary district of Chicago 1927 written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report Upon the Chicago Drainage Canal written by International Waterways Commission (U.S. and Canada) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haunts of the White City Ghost Stories from the World s Fair the Great Fire and Victorian Chicago written by Ursula Bielski and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity's most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping horrors. Even as the White City emerged from the ashes of the Great Fire, serial killers like H.H. Holmes stalked the sparkling new boulevards and tragic accidents plagued the factories, slums and railroads that powered the churn of industrial innovation. Demons, mesmerists and birds of ill omen preyed on the unwary from the shadows. Ship captains spoke to the dead, while undertakers discovered reanimated corpses no longer requiring services. From posh mansions built on massacre grounds to the drowned quarries of a forest preserve, Ursula Bielski follows the dark undercurrents beneath the electric lights of the World's Fair."--
Download or read book The United States Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Chicago Water Tower written by John F. Hogan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contaminated drinking water killed thousands of Chicago's original citizens, so the city took the unprecedented step of digging a tunnel two miles long and 30 feet below lake bottom. Since the facilities on shore included an unsightly 138-foot vertical pipe, famed architect William Boyington concealed it with a limestone, castle-like tower that soon became a celebrated landmark. Through the first 150 years of its existence, Chicago's iconic Water Tower has survived the Great Fire-the only public structure in the burn zone to do so-and at least four attempts at demolition. John Hogan pays tribute to the beloved monument that accompanied the evolution of Michigan Avenue from cowpath to Magnificent Mile.
Download or read book Industrial Arts Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Protest Against Further Diversion of Water from Lake Michigan for the Chicago Drainage Canal written by Canada. Commission of Conservation and published by R.L. Crain. This book was released on 1912 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building the Canal to Save Chicago written by Richard Lanyon and published by Lake Claremont Press: A Chicago Joint. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2013 Abel Wolman Award for Best New Book in Public Works History. To reverse the flow of a river wouldn't be possible today, but to Chicago near the end of the nineteenth century it became a matter of survival. On the shores of Lake Michigan, connected to the Great Lakes system, with the Chicago River and easy waterway access to the expanding American West, Chicago had much that was ideal in the way of water for a burgeoning metropolis in the 1800s. It also had a flat topography and poor drainage. As the city swelled, railroads replaced water transport, the population surged, and the lake served both as water supply and sewage repository. The Chicago River became overwhelmed with the commerce of a port city and its residents' sewage. It stank at times. Deadly, waterborne diseases were spreading. Flooding from the interior tore through the city to get to the lake. What to do? Without sewage treatment, it was decided to breach a subcontinental divide, send the sewage away, and save the lake. The idea received legislative approval with the promise of a navigable canal. In the largest municipal earth-moving project ever at that point--an engineering marvel and a monumental public works success--the flow of the Chicago River was turned away from Lake Michigan in 1900. Chicago's own shoulder-to-the-wheel determination made it work. Author Richard Lanyon is the former executive director of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. Heavily illustrated with historic photos.
Download or read book Water Survey Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin Illinois State Water Survey written by Illinois State Water Survey and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
