enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Water cribs in Chicago - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cribs_in_Chicago

    The Four-Mile Crib was put into service in 1891 to help with the problem of getting uncontaminated water to Chicago and various neighborhoods. To deal with this, a new crib was built even farther than the Two-Mile Crib. The brick alone cost $472,890.93, but the total project cost was $1,526,143.68.

  3. Chicago Lake Tunnel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_lake_tunnel

    In 1933, the city celebrated Chesbrough’s contributions to the city's progress by placing a commemorative tablet at the Chicago Avenue water tower. The tunnel and crib, which had become known as the "Two-Mile Tunnel" and "Two-Mile Crib" were closed and demolished in 1936. Contractors first closed and pumped the water out of the well and crib.

  4. Water crib - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_crib

    The name crib is derived from the function of the structure—to surround and protect the intake shaft. Cities supplied with drinking water collected by water cribs include Chicago, where two of the nine originally built cribs are in active use. [1] Water cribs were also used as residences for caretakers who would live in the structure year round.

  5. Ellis S. Chesbrough - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_S._Chesbrough

    However, sewage still flowed into the lake and polluted the city's drinking water. In 1863, work began on a two-mile Chicago lake tunnel, sixty feet under the lake, out to a new intake crib. that would draw cleaner water farther from the city. [9] Eventually, however, sewage water seeped all the way to the crib, giving Chesbrough a third chance ...

  6. Chicago Water Tower - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Water_Tower

    In addition to being used for firefighting, the pressure in the pipe could be regulated to control water surges in the area. [4] Together with the adjacent Chicago Avenue Pumping Station, it drew clean water from water cribs in Lake Michigan. The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The tower was the only public ...

  7. Arctic surge could bring snow squalls with a rapid freeze to ...

    www.aol.com/winter-keeps-grinding-midwest...

    Cities that could experience a quick snow squall with a rapid freeze − and thus treacherous driving conditions − include Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, and Columbus, Ohio.

  8. Sawyer Water Purification Plant - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawyer_Water_Purification...

    Two main cribs are about 2.5 miles away from the shore. [4] The 68th Street / Dunne cribs feed water to this filtration plant. This plant was the largest filtration plant in the world until Chicago completed its second filtration plant, the Central plant (now called the Jardine Water Purification Plant) was completed in 1964. [2]

  9. 2024 NASCAR Chicago Street Race: What to know about the ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/2024-nascar-chicago-street-race...

    NASCAR is back in Chicago. For a second straight year, the city will transform the Grant Park environs into a racetrack for Saturday’s The Loop 110 (Xfinity Series) and Sunday’s Grant Park 165 ...