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The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, is a 28-mile-long (45 km) canal system that connects the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River. It reverses the direction of the Main Stem and the South Branch of the Chicago River, which now flows out of Lake Michigan rather than into it.
The Wm. J. Cassidy Tire Building was a building at 344 N. Canal Street, Chicago, Illinois.Designed by Henry J. Schlacks and constructed in 1902, it originally served as a factory and warehouse for the Tyler & Hippach Mirror Co. [4] [3] [5]
The Merchandise Mart (or the Merch Mart, or the Mart) is a commercial building in downtown Chicago, Illinois.When it opened in 1930, it was the world's largest building, with 4 million square feet (372,000 m 2) of floor space.
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The Gogo Building, formerly known as the River Center, is an 840,000-square-foot (78,000 m 2) commercial building located at 111 N. Canal Street in the West Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.
The Illinois and Michigan Canal (I&M) opened in 1848. In 1900, the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal replaced the I&M and reversed the flow of the Chicago River so it no longer flowed into Lake Michigan. The United States Army Corps of Engineers maintains a 9-foot-deep (2.7 m) navigation channel in the waterway. [1]
The North Shore Channel is a 7.7 mile long canal built between 1907 and 1910 to increase the flow of North Branch of the Chicago River so that it would empty into the South Branch and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. [1] Its water is generally taken from Lake Michigan to flow into the canal at Wilmette Harbor.
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History ...