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Mannheim Road, also known as La Grange Road from Cermak Road to U.S. Route 30 (US 30; Lincoln Highway), is a north–south major street in the near-western suburbs of Chicago. It carries US 12 from Des Plaines to 95th St near Hickory Hills , US 45 between Des Plaines on southwards past Frankfort, Illinois and carries US 20 between Lake Street ...
IL 58 (Golf Road) Prospect Heights: 396.1: 637.5: IL 21 south (Milwaukee Avenue south) Southern end of IL 21 concurrency: 396.4: 637.9: Willow Road east to Illinois Tollway : Diamond interchange: Palatine Road west – Chicago Executive Airport Viewing Area: Wheeling: 398.8: 641.8: IL 68 (Dundee Road) Cook–Lake county line: Wheeling–Buffalo ...
Aerial view of the North Branch of the Chicago River, from the south, with Goose Island, near center. Early settlers named the North Branch of the Chicago River the Guarie River, or Gary's River, after a trader who may have settled the west bank of the river a short distance north of Wolf Point, at what is now Fulton Street.
The Chicago Harbor Lock, also known as the Chicago River & Harbor Controlling Works, is a stop lock and dam located within the Chicago Harbor in Chicago, Illinois at the mouth of the Chicago River. It is a component of the Chicago Area Waterway System , and is used to control water diversion from Lake Michigan into the river and for navigation.
The Illinois Waterway system consists of 336 miles (541 km) of navigable water from the mouth of the Calumet River at Chicago to the mouth of the Illinois River at Grafton, Illinois. Based primarily on the Illinois River , it is a system of rivers, lakes, and canals that provide a commercial shipping connection from the Great Lakes to the Gulf ...
The Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS) is a complex of natural and artificial waterways extending through much of the Chicago metropolitan area, covering approximately 87 miles altogether. It straddles the Chicago Portage and is the sole navigable inland link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River and makes up the northern end of ...
La Grange is located at (41.807938, −87.873455), [9] about 13 miles (21 km) west of Chicago The village is roughly flat, only deviating from the elevation of 645 feet by at most ten feet.
A component of the Chicago Area Waterway System, it connects the Little Calumet River at its eastern end to the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at its western end. The Cal-Sag Channel is utilized for inland shipping , recreational boating and drainage purposes in what was an active zone of heavy industry in the Far Southeast Side neighborhoods ...