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"The Great Chicago Sewer," 1871
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"The Great Chicago Sewer," Bridgeport, 1871. The city's sewage system dumped directly into the Chicago River, whose course was fitfully reversed, beginning when the Illinois and Michigan Canal was enlarged that year.
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