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Pages: 346
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Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-23 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Chicago River Bridges presents the untold history and development of Chicago's iconic bridges, from the first wood footbridge built by a tavern owner in 1832 to
The Chicago River
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Libby Hill
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-21 - Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press

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In this social and ecological account of the Chicago River, Libby Hill tells the story of how a sluggish waterway emptying into Lake Michigan became central to
Drawbridges Open and Close
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Patrick McBriarty
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: CurlyQ Press

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Children will love this book that teaches them the inner workings and individual steps of opening and closing a drawbridge!
Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: Brian McGinty
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-09 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight. In May of 1856, the steamboat E
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Language: en
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Categories: History
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The annexation of 1889 made Chicago's South Side the largest of the city's three sewer districts. With it came such challenges as Hyde Park sewers discharging t