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Chicago area water quality. Ever since Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, [1] it has faced multiple issues concerning water quality to accommodate its growing size, driven by the city's ideal geography and accessibility to one of the largest bodies of fresh water, the Great Lakes. [2] The City of Chicago has implemented multiple ...
Lake Calumet. / 41.68000°N 87.59000°W / 41.68000; -87.59000. Lake Calumet is the largest body of water within the city of Chicago. Formerly a shallow, postglacial lake draining into Lake Michigan, it was transformed into an industrial harbor during the 20th century. [1] Parts of the lake have been dredged, and other parts reshaped by ...
Skokie Lagoons is a nature preserve in Glencoe and Winnetka, Illinois, owned and managed by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. [2] The park is bordered by Dundee Road to the north, Forestway Drive to the east, Willow Road to the south, and the Edens Expressway to the west. Within the park, there are seven inter-connected lagoons ...
The Chain O'Lakes, or simply "The Chain", is a waterway system in northeast Illinois composed of 15 lakes connected by the Fox River and man-made channels. Encompassing more than 7,100 acres (29 km 2) of water, 488 miles (785 km) of shoreline and 45 miles (72 km) of river, the Chain is the busiest inland recreational waterway per acre in the ...
Wolf Lake (Indiana–Illinois) / 41.66583°N 87.52750°W / 41.66583; -87.52750. 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Wolf Lake is an 804-acre (325.4 ha) lake that straddles the Indiana and Illinois state line near Lake Michigan. [3] It is smaller than it was prior to settlement by European colonizers because of infilling for ...
Coordinates: 41.8947°N 87.6062°W. The plant in 2022. The Jardine Water Purification Plant, formerly the Central District Filtration Plant, is a water filtration plant located at 1000 East Ohio Street, north of Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. It draws raw water from two of the city's water cribs far offshore in Lake Michigan and supplies two ...
Coordinates: 41°42′N 87°57′W. Thomas J. O'Brien Lock & Dam, one of two major locks in the CAWS. 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 ...
On September 19, 2016, the City of Chicago renamed the South Water Purification Plant to the Sawyer Water Purification Plant to honor the former Mayor Eugene Sawyer. The water filtration plant is located at 3300 E. Cheltenham Place on the South Side along the lake near Rainbow Beach Park. Clean water supply for Chicago and nearby suburbs