Download or read book Report on the Sanitary Ship Canal written by Chicago Sanitary District and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents It has been called the greatest engineering project of the 1800s and the greatest undertaking by a single municipality, but the creation of the Chicago Canal was actually a reversal of nature, for the benefit of man. In the 19th century, some of the most important canals in the world were conceived or constructed, and while the Panama Canal and Suez Canal are better known, the Chicago canal is one of the greatest engineering projects in history. At nearly 30 miles long, the construction actually managed to reverse the flow of parts of the Chicago River, and though it was intended to be for sewage treatment, the canal continues to operate today, over 115 years after it officially opened. In the process, the canal opened up transportation between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, cementing Chicago's status as one of the most important cities in the United States. The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal: The History of the Waterway Connecting the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River looks at the important waterway. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Chicago canal like never before, in no time at all.

Download or read book The Diversion of the Waters of the Great Lakes by Way of the Sanitary and Ship Canal of Chicago written by Lyman Edgar Cooley and published by [Chicago] : Sanitary District of Chicago, State of Illinois. This book was released on 1913 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Photographs of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal written by Chicago Sanitary District and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Photographs of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal written by Chicago Sanitary District (Ill.) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Review of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal with Suggestions for a Harbor written by John Watson Alvord and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Souvenir of Inspection of Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal May 5 1899 written by Chicago Sanitary District. Board of Trustees and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Willow Springs and Sag Junction Diversions Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Illinois written by Thomas E. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Industrial Development Along Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Engineering Data on the Sanitary District of Chicago written by Chicago Sanitary District (Ill.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Manufacturing Site Possibilities of the Land Along the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal written by Chicago Sanitary District. Real Estate Development Committee and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Memorandum Concerning the Drainage and Sewerage Conditions in Chicago written by Chicago Sanitary District. Board of Trustees and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memorial Presented by the Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago to the Congress of the United States written by Chicago Sanitary District (Ill.). Board of Trustees and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Sanitary Investigations of the Illinois River and Its Tributaries written by Illinois State Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memorial Presented by the Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago written by Chicago Sanitary District (Ill.). Board of Trustees and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 32 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.