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The Chicago River
A Natural and Unnatural History
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$16.95
When French explorers Jolliet and Marquette used the Chicago portage to access the Mississippi River system, the Chicago River was but a humble, even sluggish, stream in the right place at the right time. That's the story of the making of Chicago. This is the other story--the story of the making and perpetual re-making of a river by everything from pre-glacial forces to the interventions of an emerging and mighty city.
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AUTHOR
Libby Hill
Libby Hill grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore Maryland. After high school, she attended what was then the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, majoring in history and sociology. Soon after graduation, she met and marrie
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AUDIENCE
Family, all ages
FORMAT
Paperback
DESIGN
302 pp, 6 x 9 in
LANGUAGE
English
SUBJECT
History
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Nonfiction
REVIEWS
"Finding the headwater of the Chicago River-near a backyard in Waukegan-might not rival the adventures of tracing the source of the Nile, but it shows how little we know about a brook that created Chicago and, in turn, became unrecognizably reshaped
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PUBLICATION DATE
August, 2000
PUBLISHER
Lake Claremont Press
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$16.95
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