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• Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

• Title: Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Extends 33.9 miles from Chicago to Lockport, Chicago, Cook County, IL
• Other Title: Main Channel
  Main Channel Extension
  Chicago Drainage Canal
• Creator(s): Historic American Engineering Record, creator
• Related Names:
     Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
     U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
     Sanitary District of Chicago
     Chicago Board of Sewerage Commissioners
     Chesbrough, Ellis S
     Ogden, William B
     Wentworth, John
     Citizens Association of Chicago
     Drainage Boundary Commission
     Cooley, Lyman
     Mason, Arthur J
     Hoover, Frank K
     Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company
     Randolph, Isham
     American Bridge Company
     Lafayette Engineering Company
     Green & Sons Company
     McMahon & Montgomery Company
     Hayes Brothers
     The Heidenreich Company
     Christie & Lowe
     Gahan & Byrne
     Ricker & Lee Company
     Weir & McKechney
     Angus & Gindele
     E.D. Smith & Company
     Western Improvement Company
     Heldmaier & Neu.
     Griffith & McDermott
     Gilman & Company
     McArthur Brothers
     The Qualey Construction Company
     Agnew & Company
     Mason, Hoge & Company
     Halvorsen, Richards & Company
     Wright, Meysenberg, Sinclair & Carry
     U.S. Army Corps of Engineers , sponsor
     Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
     Christianson, Justine , transmitter
     Lockett, Dana , project manager
• Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
• Medium: Photo(s): 10
  Measured Drawing(s): 6
  Data Page(s): 37
  Photo Caption Page(s): 2
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
  
• Call Number: HAER IL-197
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Significance: To deal with Chicago's water supply and pollution issues, the engineers of the Sanitary District devised an innovative approach that involved diluting the city's sewage with water drawn from Lake Michigan and sending it downstream via a canal, thus protecting Lake Michigan, the source of the city's drinking water. The construction of this canal, known variously as the Main Channel and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, was a massive undertaking and required the contractors to devise large-scale earth moving techniques and machinery. In 1955, the American Society of Civil Engineers deemed the canal one of the "Seven Wonders of American Engineering." Finally, the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is significant as a component of the Illinois Waterway, which opened in 1930 and created a navigable waterway connecting Chicago and Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River and beyond.
  • Survey number: HAER IL-197
  • Building/structure dates: 1892-1900 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1903-1907 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1938 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1986 Demolished
  • Building/structure dates: after 1960 Demolished
• Subjects:
  • canals
  • transportation engineering
  • waterways
  • water supply
  • sanitation
  • locks (hydraulic facilities)
  • movable dams
  • powerhouses
  • water power
• Place:
  • Illinois -- Cook County -- Chicago
  • Illinois -- Will County -- Lockport
• Collections:
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• Part of: Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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     https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/il0976/

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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: HAER IL-197
• Medium: Photo(s): 10
  Measured Drawing(s): 6
  Data Page(s): 37
  Photo Caption Page(s): 2

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• Call Number: HAER IL-197
• Medium: Photo(s): 10
  Measured Drawing(s): 6
  Data Page(s): 37
  Photo Caption Page(s): 2

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