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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.
Jackson Park is a 551.5-acre (223.2 ha) urban park on the shore of Lake Michigan on the South Side of Chicago.Straddling the Hyde Park, Woodlawn, and South Shore neighborhoods, the park was designed in 1871 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and remodeled in 1893 to serve as the site of the World's Columbian Exposition.
The Chicago Maritime Museum is a maritime society and museum dedicated to the study and memorialization of Chicago's maritime traditions. [1] The museum's webpage asserts that Lake Michigan and the Chicago River were key factors in Chicago's growth toward status as a world-class city, and pays tribute to Congress for granting lake frontage in 1818 to the infant state of Illinois. [2]
The Illinois Waterway system consists of 336 miles (541 km) of navigable water from the mouth of the Calumet River at Chicago to the mouth of the Illinois River at Grafton, Illinois. Based primarily on the Illinois River , it is a system of rivers, lakes, and canals that provide a commercial shipping connection from the Great Lakes to the Gulf ...
The Port of Chicago is within the greater Chicago Harbor in and around Calumet Harbor, the Calumet River, and Lake Calumet. The Chicago Park District operates a municipal harbor system in the greater Chicago Harbor in Lake Michigan for recreational boaters. With accommodations for 6000 boats, [3] it is the largest system of its kind in the ...
Harrah's Joliet launched its first boat on May 4, 1993, a 210-foot yacht named the Northern Star, with 500 slot machines and 40 table games. [5] A second vessel with a more traditional paddleboat look, the Southern Star, was added the following January. [6] A $29-million hotel was added in 1999, with 204 rooms on 11 floors. [7]
Brunswick billiard tables were a commercial success, and the business expanded and opened the first of what would become many branch offices in Chicago, Illinois, in 1848. It was later renamed J. M. Brunswick & Brother by 1860, after a family member came on board, and the company's slogan at this time was: "The oldest and most extensive ...
Mayor of Chicago (Rahm Emanuel) Edwards, Averil Member 8/10/2020 6/1/2025 Governor (J. B. Pritzker) Meltzer-Cassel, Danielle Member 11/6/2019 Continuing Appointment Mayor of Chicago (Lori Lightfoot) Solis, Ivan Chair 11/6/2019 Continuing Appointment Mayor of Chicago (Lori Lightfoot) Sriraj, P.S. Vice Chair 8/10/2020 6/1/2025 Governor