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03285aam a2200445 i 4500 001 164C2800550D11E9884C074097128E48 003 SILO 005 20190402010148 008 180417s2019 iluab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018018783 020 $a 080933707X 020 $a 9780809337071 035 $a (OCoLC)1032289896 040 $a PUL $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d OCLCO $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-il 050 00 $a F547.C45 $b H5 2019 082 00 $a 977.3/11 $2 23 100 1 $a Hill, Libby, $e author. 245 14 $a The Chicago River : $b a natural and unnatural history / $c Libby Hill. 250 $a Revised edition. 264 1 $a Carbondale : $b Southern Illinois University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xxiv, 301 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm 500 $a Originally published: Lake Claremont Press, 2000. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-290) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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. 650 0 $a Natural history $z Chicago River. $z Chicago River. 650 0 $a Sewerage $z Chicago River. $z Chicago River. 651 0 $a Chicago River (Ill.) $x History. 650 7 $a Natural history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034268 650 7 $a Sewerage. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114083 651 0 $a Chicago River Region (Ill.) $x History. 651 7 $a Illinois $z Chicago River. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01266798 651 7 $a Illinois $z Chicago River Region. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01345825 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907011818.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=164C2800550D11E9884C074097128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search