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Ogden Slip in 1950 Ogden Slip in 1973 View of Ogden Slip (looking towards Navy Pier) in November 2007. In 1861, [1] Chicago Dock and Canal Company constructed the Odgen Slip. It was among many real estate investments of the company that were overseen by William B. Ogden. [2]
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The company was founded in 1890 as the partnership of William A. Lydon & Fred C. Drews and was named Lydon & Drews dredging company. Early projects included the shoreline structures for the Chicago's Columbian Exposition. The company soon had satellite operations throughout the Great Lakes. It was renamed the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company ...
In 1861, [3] the company constructed the Ogden Slip. [4] Ogden, who had no children of his own, left a large share of the company to his niece Eleanor Wheeler after his 1877 death. [5] She married Alexander C. McClurg. [6] The company was the plaintiff in the 1913 United States Supreme Court case Chicago Dock & Canal Co. v. Fraley. [7]
The Chicago flood occurred on April 13, 1992, when repair work on a bridge spanning the Chicago River damaged the wall of an abandoned and disused utility tunnel beneath the river. The resulting breach flooded basements, facilities and the underground Chicago Pedway throughout the Chicago Loop with an estimated 250 million US gallons (1,000,000 ...
In 1857, the State of Illinois sold 40 acres (160,000 m 2), including the site later to be known as DuSable Park, to the Chicago Dock and Canal Trust. [1] In 1893, the company dug out the Ogden Slip to allow boats to pull cargo from railroads at North Pier and the DuSable Park site was filled in by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. [1] [2]
The State of Illinois and City of Chicago had relinquished all rights and interest in the bed of Lake Calumet to the Port District, so as to enable the District to develop Calumet Harbor. [5] The district was given the power to acquire any navigable waters of the state which were within the District area. [5]
Todd Shipyards was founded in 1916 as the William H. Todd Corporation when properties of the Tietjen & Lang Dry Dock Company of Hoboken, New Jersey were bought in 1916 by a syndicate headed by Bertron Griscom & Company of New York and placed under management of William H. Todd, president of the Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co., Erie Basin, Brooklyn, New York. [6]