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Chicago River Sewage

The Value of Water

Henry Henderson | Posted 11.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Asian Carp, Lake Michigan, Nrdc, Invasive Species, Pollution, Chicago River, Chicago River Sewage, Natural Resources Defense Council, Atrazine, Water Pollution, Water, Chicago, Great Lakes, Privatization, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Ballast-Water, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

The water rich communities of the Great Lakes region do not understand the nature and value of their most precious resource.

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Old Stockyards Dumping Ground Bubbly Creek Still Bubbling

Chicago Journal | TIM TALIAFERRO | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Stockyards, Chicago Bubbly Creek, Back of the Yards, Chicago River Sewage, Chicago River, Bubbly Creek, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, Chicago River Pollution, Chicago News

A chain link fence separates Bubbly Creek, a polluted backwater cul-de-sac of the Chicago River, from human contact near 35th Street and Racine Avenue...

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Chicago River: From Open Sewer to Crown Jewel?

Henry Henderson | Posted 08.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Blair Kamin, Mwrd, Chicago River Sewage, Chicago River, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, Daniel Burnham, Chicago River Pollution, Burnham Plan of Chicago, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

While the city and residents have embraced the river, the governmental agency responsible for the waterway continues to turn its back to the river and consider it an open sewer.

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The Audacity of Slope, or How The River Gets Its Groove Back

Debra Shore | Posted 07.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago River Sewage, Chicago River, Chicago Water Supply, Chicago Sanitary District, Lake Michigan, Ecocentrism, Environment, Green Living, Thomas Berry, Chicago News
Debra Shore

One hundred and twenty years ago, no one asked, "What do we owe the Chicago River?" Yet today, making amends for past abuses seems to me to be the central biological, physical and moral challenge of our time.

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The Chicago Floods: When Tragedy Hits Home

Ari Bendersky | Posted 10.16.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Des Plaines River, Midwest Floods, Albany Park, Chicago River, Flood, Chicago River Evacuation, Chicago Flood, Midwest Flooding, Chicago River Sewage, Record Rainfall, Extreme Weather, Chicago News
Ari Bendersky

News reports and official city press conferences tell one side of the story. Hearing first hand accounts from residents you learn a different side.

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How Do You Clean The Chicago River

Chicago Public Radio | Gabriel Spitzer | Posted 10.09.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Environment, Cleaning the Chicago River, Chicago River Sewage, Illinois EPA, Chicago River, Chicago River Pollution, Chicago News

Illinois regulators want to disinfect the sewage that flows into waterways like the Chicago River. But the agency that would get that dirty job isn't ...

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