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Rzeka Chicago jest rzadkim przykładem cieku wodnego, którego naturalny bieg został odwrócony przez człowieka. Płynie przez miasto Chicago, w tym przez jego centrum Chicago Loop, stanowiąc ważną drogę wodną łączącą Wielkie Jeziora Północnoamerykańskie i rzekę Missisipi.
Before this time, the Chicago River was known by many local residents of Chicago as "the stinking river" because of the massive amounts of sewage and pollution that poured into the river from Chicago's booming industrial economy.
22 paź 2024 · The impact of the Chicago River on trade – and how the city changed because of it – was monumental. The modern city of Chicago first began in the early 1800s as a U.S. military outpost, Fort Dearborn, a key port for large trading vessels. The city grew from a population of just 4,500 in 1840, to 300,000 in 1870, to more than 1.6 million in ...
In a herculean effort to save the city from the ravages of typhoid, cholera, and other waterborne illnesses, engineer Sylvester Chesbrough suggested Chicago reverse the direction of its river away from the lake and toward the Mississippi River.
27 lip 2024 · The Chicago River is an entire system of rivers and canals running through the city. They have a combined length of 156 miles (251 kilometers) and link the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River Basin. In the city, the North and South Branches of the river converge at Wolf Point, forming the Main Stem.
The History of the Chicago River. For centuries, the Chicago River has drawn intrepid explorers, immigrant laborers, and industrial giants to its shores, lured by the promise of its opportunities. Yet as much as the river has been Chicago’s raison d’être, it has also been our most precarious problem to solve.
17 mar 2003 · Chicago’s newest great office structure, the London Guarantee and Accident building,on the site of old Fort Dearborn, fronting on the southwest plaza of the Michigan Avenue Bridge, is in one sense a $4,000,000 joke upon a land owner.