The Straightening of the Chicago River
Author : Chicago (Ill.). Citizen's Committee on River Straightening
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Chicago River
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Author : Chicago (Ill.). Citizen's Committee on River Straightening
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Chicago River
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Page : 270 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Chicago River (Ill.)
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Author : Chicago, Citizens' Committee on River Straightening
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Chicago River
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
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Author : Chicago, Citizens' Committee on River Straightening
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Page : 45 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Chicago River (Ill.)
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Author : Libby Hill
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0809337088
In this social and ecological account of the Chicago River, Libby Hill tells the story of how a sluggish waterway emptying into Lake Michigan became central to the creation of Chicago as a major metropolis and transportation hub. This widely acclaimed volume weaves the perspectives of science, engineering, commerce, politics, economics, and the natural world into a chronicle of the river from its earliest geologic history through its repeated adaptations to the city that grew up around it. While explaining the river’s role in massive public works, such as drainage and straightening, designed to address the infrastructure needs of a growing population, Hill focuses on the synergy between the river and the people of greater Chicago, whether they be the tribal cultures that occupied the land after glacial retreat, the first European inhabitants, or more recent residents. In the first edition, Hill brought together years of original research and the contributions of dozens of experts to tell the Chicago River’s story up until 2000. This revised edition features discussions of disinfection, Asian carp, green strategies, the evolution of the Chicago Riverwalk, and the river’s rejuvenation. It also explores how earlier solutions to problems challenge today’s engineers, architects, environmentalists, and public policy agencies as they address contemporary issues. Revealing the river to be a microcosm of the uneasy relationship between nature and civilization, The Chicago River offers the tools and knowledge for the city’s residents to be champions on the river’s behalf.
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Calumet River (Ill.)
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Author : David M. Solzman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
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Provides a guidebook to the river and its waterways. Explores the physical character as well as the natural history of the river.
Author : Edward T. Cahill
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Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Chicago River (Ill.)
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Author : Jonathan Genzen
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781565795532
Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces-greed and corruption, ambition and desire-run out of control in the wake of a serial killer's grisly rampage.A power struggle-between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long, a Mafia boss who holds the city's vices in his powerful grasp, and media reporters looking for a big story-turns what has been a minor dispute into a desperate struggle for survival.Setting this drama in a blue-collar metropolis dominated by an oil company, Estleman, with an unerring eye for telling detail and an ear for dialogue that reveals the secret desires of his characters, crafts a fascinating, deadly tapestry of love, ambition, revenge, and redemption, a stunning portrait of the human condition.