| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Part I. Prehistory through the eighteenth century -- Location, location, location -- Geological foundations: bedrock and ice -- The Chicago River: branches and forks -- The natural Chicago River: animal, vegetable, and mineral -- Tribal land -- Passages and treaties: on the path to a canal -- Part II. The nineteenth century -- The Illinois and Michigan Canal -- Redesigning the harbor -- Early commerce and the river -- The North Branch settlement -- The Chicago River: clean stream to open sewer -- The I&M Canal: shipping channel to open sewer -- Toward the Sanitary and Ship Canal: from 1880 to shovel day -- Building the channel that saved Chicago -- Part III. Twentieth century -- Reconnecting the city and the river -- The North Shore Channel and the North Branch -- The ascendance of federal authority -- Straightening the South Branch -- Transforming the Skokie Marsh -- The metropolitan water reclamation district, modern sewage treatment, and the tunnel and reservoir project -- Citizens and their river -- Part IV. Early years of the twenty-first century -- The MWRD and disinfection -- Invasive carp: the case of the Sanitary and Ship Canal -- Greening the watershed -- The evolution of a riverwalk -- Retrospective |
| Summary |
"A social and ecological account of the Chicago River, beginning with its geological foundations and extending to the present, the book tells how a sluggish waterway emptying into Lake Michigan became central to the creation of Chicago as a major transportation hub. Originally published by Lake Claremont Press in 2000 and reprinted by SIU Press in 2016, this revised edition updates the story."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Originally published: Lake Claremont Press, 2000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-290) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 13, 2019) |
| Subject |
Natural history -- Illinois -- Chicago River
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Sewerage -- Illinois -- Chicago River
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General.
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Sewerage
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Natural history
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| SUBJECT |
Chicago River (Ill.) -- History
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| Subject |
Illinois -- Chicago River
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018018783 |
| ISBN |
9780809337088 |
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0809337088 |
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