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The North Shore Sanitary District Tower is located in Rosewood Park, Highland Park, Illinois.It was built in 1931 to provide ventilation for the local sewer system. The brick tower is 50 feet (15 m) tall and topped by a spire.
In 1910, the North Shore Channel was completed to provide drainage for the marshy areas north of the city and to direct lake water into the North Branch of the Chicago River for dilution. The Cal-Sag Channel was ready for operation in 1922, which also was the year the first treatment plant of the Sanitary District of Chicago was completed. The ...
Sanitary districts for sewerage were established July 1, 1917. Sanitary districts for drainage and sewage disposal were established July 2, 1936. [1] The largest sanitary district is the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, which oversaw the reversal of the course of the Chicago River.
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.
Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [1] One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly newspaper in Rogers Park in 1895 called the North Shore ...
Bounded roughly by S. Crandon Avenue on the East, E. 78th Street on the South, S. Clyde Avenue on the West, and E. 75th Street on the North 41°45′13″N 87°34′07″W / 41.753503°N 87.568661°W / 41.753503; -87.568661 ( South Shore Bungalow Historic
North Shore Bank bought these properties in September 2023 for $1.1 million, public records show. Robert E. Lee and Associates is the engineering firm hired for the construction.
The Sanitary District of Chicago (now The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District) was created by the Illinois legislature in 1889 in response to this close call. [ 3 ] In addition, the canal was built to supplement and ultimately replace the older and smaller Illinois and Michigan Canal (built 1848) as a conduit to the Mississippi River system.