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  2. Chicago area water quality - Wikipedia

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    Combined Sewer System. The change in the river's water flow was estimated to provide enough treatment-by-dilution for up to a population of three million. [1] However, in 1908, it became clear to the Chicago Sanitary District that the city’s population was continuing to grow and that the population would soon exceed the treatment capacity that the canal offered.

  3. Urban Rivers - Wikipedia

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    Alongside Shedd Aquarium, Urban Rivers added over three thousand square feet of floating habitat to the South Branch of the Chicago River. [10] They create the habitats by utilizing a 'riverponic' system: they combine together polyethylene and metal frames, matting, dropping them in the water, adding plants, and anchoring the islands to the ...

  4. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

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    In 2011, U.S. Senators Richard Durbin and Mark Kirk and Congressman Mike Quigley toured the Chicago area waterways and announced their support for the disinfection projects. In April 2012, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, and the U.S. EPA awarded the MWRD $10 million through the Illinois Jobs Now! capital program ...

  5. Mayor Brandon Johnson announces plans to address pollution ...

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    A year after federal investigators outlined how Chicago funnels industrial polluters into Black and Latino neighborhoods, Mayor Brandon Johnson vowed Monday to overhaul zoning, planning and land ...

  6. Chicago River - Wikipedia

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    Aerial view of the North Branch of the Chicago River, from the south, with Goose Island, near center. Early settlers named the North Branch of the Chicago River the Guarie River, or Gary's River, after a trader who may have settled the west bank of the river a short distance north of Wolf Point, at what is now Fulton Street.

  7. Meet 'Chonkosaurus,' the viral Chicago River snapping turtle

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    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.

  8. Chicago flood - Wikipedia

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    The City of Chicago then gave permission to install the new pilings 3.5 feet (1.1 m) south of the old pilings. The crew members who began work at the site did not know that beneath the river was an abandoned Chicago Tunnel Company (CTC) tunnel that had been used in the early 20th century to transport coal and goods. One of the pilings on the ...

  9. File:ChicagoRiver.svg - Wikipedia

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    Chicago River: Date: 1994: Source: Surface-Water-Quality Assessment of the Upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin--Pesticides and Other Synthetic Organic Compounds in Water, Sediment, and Biota, 1975-90, page 21 (PDF page 30) Author: USGov: Permission (Reusing this file) PD-USGov-USGS