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The Region and The Globe Satellite view of the Great Lakes (Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario) and the Atlantic coast (Boston and New York City in far background) seen from the International Space Station. Source: NASA provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
Divide, Divert, and Conquer 1847 map of the planned Illinois and Michigan Canal running 96 miles (155 kilometers) that opened boat transportation from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. Source: Chicago Historical Society
Cordon Sanitaire The 28-mile, 200-foot-wide 20-feet-deep Sanitary and Ship Canal that effectively reversed the Chicago River, diverting sewage away from Lake Michigan. Source: Chicago History Museum, ICHi-39314
7. Missouri’s 1905 suit against Illinois to end the diversion was unsuccessful, but the Supreme Court placed limits of water diversion starting in 1925. See Stanley A. Changnon and Mary E. Harper, “History of the Chicago Diversion,” in The Lake Michigan Diversion at Chicago and Urban Drought, ed. Stanley A. Changnon (Mahomet, IL: NOAA Contract 50WCNR306047, 1994): 16B38.
