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  • Chicago waterways – still flowing after more than 100 years

    Mar 8, 2017 3:15 pm by Debra Levey LarsonOutreach
    A tugboat pushes a barge on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal past a coal-fired electric power plant.

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    • A tugboat pushes a barge on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal past a coal-fired electric power plant.

    Chicago’s intricate waterway system, which included reversing Chicago and Calumet river flows, has protected the Lake Michigan water supply for over 100 years, but faces new challenges