Author: Etc Chicago (Ill ). Ordinances
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Laws and Ordinances Governing the City of Chicago, January 1, 1866
Author: Etc Chicago (Ill ). Ordinances
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Laws and Ordinances Governing the City of Chicago, January 1 1866
Author: Chicago (Ill.) Ordinances, etc. Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781418129996
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781418129996
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Laws and Ordinances Covering the City of Chicago, January 1, 1866
Author: Chicago (Ill.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
Laws and Ordinances Governing the City of Chicago
Author: Chicago (Ill.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Revised Building Ordinances of the City of Chicago
Author: Chicago (Ill.).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building laws
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building laws
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Laws and Ordinances Governing the City of Chicago, as in Force April 2, 1890
Publication No. 1-3 City Club of Chicago. ...
Check List of Chicago Ante-fire Imprints, 1851-1871
Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Check List of Books and Pamphlets on Municipal Government Found in the Free Public Libraries of Chicago
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Tunnel under the Lake
Author: Benjamin Sells
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810134756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The Tunnel under the Lake recounts the gripping story of how the young city of Chicago, under the leadership of an audacious engineer named Ellis Chesbrough, constructed a two-mile tunnel below Lake Michigan in search of clean water. Despite Chicago's location beside the world’s largest source of fresh water, its low elevation at the end of Lake Michigan provided no natural method of carrying away waste. As a result, within a few years of its founding, Chicago began to choke on its own sewage collecting near the shore. The befouled environment, giving rise to outbreaks of sickness and cholera, became so acute that even the ravages and costs of the U.S. Civil War did not distract city leaders from taking action. Chesbrough's solution was an unprecedented tunnel five feet in diameter lined with brick and dug sixty feet beneath Lake Michigan. Construction began from the shore as well as the tunnel’s terminus in the lake. With workers laboring in shifts and with clay carted away by donkeys, the lake and shore teams met under the lake three years later, just inches out of alignment. When it opened in March 1867, observers, city planners, and grateful citizens hailed the tunnel as the "wonder of America and of the world." Benjamin Sells narrates in vivid detail the exceptional skill and imagination it took to save this storied city from itself. A wealth of fascinating appendixes round out Sells’s account, which will delight those interested in Chicago history, water resources, and the history of technology and engineering.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810134756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The Tunnel under the Lake recounts the gripping story of how the young city of Chicago, under the leadership of an audacious engineer named Ellis Chesbrough, constructed a two-mile tunnel below Lake Michigan in search of clean water. Despite Chicago's location beside the world’s largest source of fresh water, its low elevation at the end of Lake Michigan provided no natural method of carrying away waste. As a result, within a few years of its founding, Chicago began to choke on its own sewage collecting near the shore. The befouled environment, giving rise to outbreaks of sickness and cholera, became so acute that even the ravages and costs of the U.S. Civil War did not distract city leaders from taking action. Chesbrough's solution was an unprecedented tunnel five feet in diameter lined with brick and dug sixty feet beneath Lake Michigan. Construction began from the shore as well as the tunnel’s terminus in the lake. With workers laboring in shifts and with clay carted away by donkeys, the lake and shore teams met under the lake three years later, just inches out of alignment. When it opened in March 1867, observers, city planners, and grateful citizens hailed the tunnel as the "wonder of America and of the world." Benjamin Sells narrates in vivid detail the exceptional skill and imagination it took to save this storied city from itself. A wealth of fascinating appendixes round out Sells’s account, which will delight those interested in Chicago history, water resources, and the history of technology and engineering.