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English: Schematic of the Illinois Waterway from the Mississippi River to Lake Michigan. X-axis = river miles. Y-axis = elevation above sea level. Drawn by myself, based on US Army Corps of Engineers data sheet at .
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 Chicago Harbor Lock, also known as the Chicago River & Harbor Controlling Works, is a stop lock and dam located within the Chicago Harbor in Chicago, Illinois at the mouth of the Chicago River. It is a component of the Chicago Area Waterway System , and is used to control water diversion from Lake Michigan into the river and for navigation.
The Chain O'Lakes, or simply "The Chain", is a waterway system in northeast Illinois composed of 15 lakes connected by the Fox River and man-made channels. Encompassing more than 7,100 acres (29 km 2 ) of water, 488 miles (785 km) of shoreline and 45 miles (72 km) of river, the Chain is the busiest inland recreational waterway per acre in the ...
It straddles the Chicago Portage and is the sole navigable inland link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River and makes up the northern end of the Illinois Waterway. [ 1 ] The CAWS includes various branches of the Chicago and Calumet Rivers , as well as other channels such as the North Shore Channel , Cal-Sag Channel , and Chicago ...
This is a universal template for all waterway Route Diagram Templates (RDT). It adds the following text (without the surrounding box) to an RDT: It adds the following text (without the surrounding box) to an RDT:
This category is for waterways of Illinois, specifically those used for transportation or parts of parks or other public recreational areas. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
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