Browsing OU - Dissertations by Subject "Canals--Illinois--Chicago"
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Refuse, Reform, and Reversal: An Environmental History of the Chicago River, 1830-1910
(2020-05)Throughout the nineteenth century, Chicago’s industrial packinghouses, breweries, lumber mills, and brick foundries dumped their waste in the Chicago River. This sewage made the river an open sewer. The refuse threatened ...