The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, is a 32-mile-long canal system that connects the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River in Northeast Illinois, US
Lock and dam of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at Lockport
Construction of the Chicago Drainage Canal, 1900s
Chicago Drainage Canal being built (1899)
The canal at Willow Springs, Illinois, 1904
Chicago Portage
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The Chicago Portage was an ancient portage that connected the Great Lakes waterway system with the Mississippi River system. This connection provided comparatively easy access from the mouth of the St
Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
…drainage system from the Great Lakes drainage system. This low divide had been known since pre-Columbian time by the Native Americans, who used it as the Chicago Portage to cross from the Chicago River drainage to the Des Plaines River basin drainage. The Illinois and Michigan Canal was cut across that divide in the…
Chicago Portage Hike Into History
Development of the Great Lakes.
Canoes in a fog, Lake Superior by Francis Anne Hopkins.
The waterway at the Chicago Portage National Historic Site in March.