Originally published: Lake Claremont Press, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-290) and index.
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.
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