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Locks on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois (18 P) Pages in category "Locks of Illinois" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
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Principal Parisian city gates. While Paris is encircled by the Boulevard Périphérique (Paris ring road), the city gates of Paris (French: portes de Paris) are the access points to the city for pedestrians and other road users. As Paris has had successive ring roads through the centuries, city gates are found inside the modern-day Paris.
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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.
According to the US Army Corps of Engineers, the new dam and locks will reduce passage time to under one hour with the new system. [citation needed] Due to queuing at Lock and Dam Number 52 and Lock and Dam Number 53, it can take cargo traffic 15 to 20 hours each to transit the locks the Olmsted complex is intended to replace. [6]
The lock and dam, as well as a similar lock and dam near Peoria, were needed when the authorized channel depth was raised to nine foot. The Peoria and LaGrange locks replaced older locks on the lower Illinois River. The lock uses Chanoine wicket gates, which allow for navigation on the river, rather than the Tainter gates seen elsewhere on the ...
CBS News has confirmed that the stowaway created a disruption Saturday on Delta Flight No. 265, bound from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport.