In recent years, the Chicago River itself has undergone a renaissance, from a lifeless industrial waterway into a vibrant ...
May-September: Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet's exploration of the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan takes them by the future site of Chicago. Joliet reports that a canal connecting Lake ...
Jan. 17 -- The dam separating the Chicago Drainage Canal and the Desplaines River was lowered to-day, and the water of the former rushed, through on its way to the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico.