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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]
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]
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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]
South Branch Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois ( 41°50′30″N 87°40′33″W / 41.8416°N 87.6757°W / 41.8416; -87 The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal , historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal , is a 28-mile-long (45 km) canal system that connects the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River .
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 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 ...
The North Shore Channel is a 7.7 mile long canal built between 1907 and 1910 to increase the flow of North Branch of the Chicago River so that it would empty into the South Branch and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. [1] Its water is generally taken from Lake Michigan to flow into the canal at Wilmette Harbor.