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In 1848, the Illinois and Michigan canal linked the river to the Illinois River and the Mississippi Valley across the Chicago Portage. This canal was the farthest west, and the last, of a series of United States' government land grant canals.
South Branch Chicago River; South Branch Kishwaukee River; Spoon River; Stillman Creek; Sugar Creek; Sugar River; Thorn Creek; Tyler Creek, (not to be confused with a creek of the same in Oregon) Vermilion River (Illinois River tributary) Vermilion River (Wabash River tributary) Wabash River; West Okaw River; Wood River; Yellow Creek
It was dedicated in 1989, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, perhaps best known for its major achievement in reversing the flow of the Chicago River in 1900; [2] and in 1999, this system was named a "Civil Engineering Monument of the Millennium" by the American Society of Civil ...
Riverview Park was an amusement park in Chicago, Illinois, which operated from 1904 to 1967.It was located on 74 acres (30 hectares) bound on the south by Belmont Avenue, on the east by Western Avenue, on the north by Lane Tech College Prep High School, and on the west by the North Branch of the Chicago River. [2]
La Moine River; Leaf River (Illinois) Lick Creek (Sangamon River tributary) Little Mackinaw River; Little Marys River (Illinois) Little Menominee River; Little Muddy River (Illinois) Little Vermilion River (Illinois River tributary) Little Vermilion River (Wabash River tributary) Little Wabash River; Lusk Creek
A massive snapping turtle lounging on a bed of rusty chains in the Chicago River has won hearts on the internet after a viral video circulated Twitter.
The Cortland Street Drawbridge (originally known as the Clybourn Place drawbridge) [4] over the Chicago River is the original Chicago-style fixed-trunnion bascule bridge, designed by John Ericson and Edward Wilmann. [3] When it opened in 1902, on Chicago's north side, it was the first such bridge built in the United States.
A man standing on slaughterhouse-derived waste in Bubbly Creek in Chicago in 1911. The area surrounding Bubbly Creek was originally a wetland; during the 19th century, channels were dredged to increase the rate of flow into the Chicago River and dry out the area to increase the amount of habitable land in the fast-growing city.