Chicago River: The River That Runs Backward
One of the biggest challenges the city faced was waste management. It was once again Chesbrough who came to the citys rescue. Chesbrough proposed an audacious planreverse the flow of the river away from Lake Michigan. Any rainfall on the east of the divide flows into the Great Lakes. Work on the canal could not begin until 1892, six years after Chesbroughs death. Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal being built....