ABSTRACT
Every summer, many festivals are held in Chicago to bring people together, to listen to music, laugh, talk, drink and especially, eat. The largest of all the lakefront festivals is the "Taste of Chicago". The festival's main theme is the ethnic diversity of foods in the Chicago area. The festival is held during eight days of music, food and fun on 305 acres of urban parkland over the Fourth of July holiday. Lake Michigan is the source of drinking water for approximately six million people in the Chicago-land area. In 1889, the citizens of Chicago called upon the legislature of the State of Illinois to create the Sanitary District of Chicago, the predecessor to the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago (District). The District has been sampling Lake Michigan for general chemistry; fats, oils, and greases; and fecal coliform since 1981. The District has been, throughout the years, the primary Lake Michigan pollution control watchdog within the area of jurisdiction.
