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  • Budgetary codes of the Sanitary District of Chicago [microform] / prepared by J.L. Jacobs & Company, Chicago, August 1917.

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    • [Chicago : The Company?, 1917]
    • 1917
    • 1 Item
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    Text *Z-7679 v. 1-9Offsite
  • Report on a definite budget plan for the Sanitary District of Chicago [microform] / prepared at the request of the Board of Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago by J.L. Jacobs & Company, Chicago, August 2, 1917.

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    • [Chicago : The Company?, 1917]
    • 1917
    • 1 Item
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    Text *Z-7679 v. 1-9Offsite
  • Papers relating to the application of the Sanitary district of Chicago for permission to divert 10,000 cubic feet of water per second from Lake Michigan.

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    • Ottawa, Printed by C. H. Parmelee, 1912.
    • 1912
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDI (Canada (1867-, dom.). Marine and Fisheries Department. Papers)Offsite
  • The diversion of the waters of the Great Lakes by way of the Sanitary and ship canal of Chicago. A brief of the facts and issues, by Lyman E. Cooley.

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    • [Chicago, Clohesey printers], 1913.
    • 1913
    • 1 Item

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    Text VDP (Cooley, L. E. Diversion of the waters of the Great Lakes)Offsite
  • The most gigantic engineering blunder in America : address / by William George Bruce. Legal aspects of the case : address / by Herman L. Ekern. Nutshell findings and conclusions / by Daniel W. Hoan. Protest preamble and resolutions adopted at Cleveland, Ohio, January 15-16, 1925 / by The Great Lakes Harbor Associaton (American and Canadian).

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    • [Milwaukee : Great Lakes Harbors Assoc., 1925].
    • 1925
    • 1 Item
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    Text VBA p.v. 2069 no. 1-9Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The Great lakes issue! The present status of the Chicago water diversion case, by William George Bruce, president, Great lakes harbor association (American and Canadian).

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    • [Milwaukee], Great Lakes Harbors Association, 1926.
    • 1926
    • 1 Item
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    Text VBA p.v. 2051 no. 1-21Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Report of George M. Wisner, chief engineer, relating to existing lake levels, January, 1917. Adopted by the Board of trustees at its meeting held March 1, 1917.

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    • [Chicago, 1917]
    • 1917
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDC p.v. 44 no. 1-11Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The lakes and gulf waterway, as related to the Chicago sanitary problem. The general project of a waterway from lake Michigan to the gulf of Mexico ... A preliminary report with appendices, maps and profiles. By L. E. Cooley ...

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    • Chicago, Press of J. W. Weston [1891]
    • 1891
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDC p.v. 221 no. 1, 3-4Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Memorandum concerning the drainage and sewerage conditions in Chicago and the diversion of 10,000 C. F. S. from Lake Michigan at Chicago. Issued by the Board of Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago.

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    • Chicago, 1923.
    • 1923
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDC p.v. 98 no. 1-21Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The story of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago: the seventh wonder of American engineering.

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    • [Chicago, Metropolital Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, 1960]
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
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    Text VBA p.v. 2241 no. 1-9Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The traveling cableway, and some other devices employed by contractors on the Chicago main drainage canal.

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    • [New York, 1895]
    • 1895
  • Lake Michigan water diversion : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session, on H.R. 3210, S. 1772, and S. 2550, bills to authorize the state of Illinois and the sanitary district of Chicago, under the direction of the Secretary of the army, to test, on a 3-year basis, the effect of increasing the diversion of water from Lake Michigan into the Illinois waterway, and for other purposes. July 5 and 13, 1956.

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    • Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1956.
    • 1956
    • 1 Item
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    Text *SBF (United States. Public works committee (Senate, 84:2). Hearings)Offsite
  • Nine-foot channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. Hearings before the Select Committee on Nine-Foot Channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, United States Senate, Sixty-Seventh Congress, fourth session, on S. 4428, a bill for the improvement of commerce and navigation, and for other purposes. October 15, 1923-Jan. 23, 1925.

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    • Washington, Gov. Prtg. Off., 1924-25.
    • 1924-1925
    • 2 Items
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    Text *SBF (United States. Nine-Foot Channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, Select Committee on (Senate, 67:4). Hearings) v. 1Offsite
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    Text *SBF (United States. Nine-Foot Channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, Select Committee on (Senate, 67:4). Hearings) v. 2Offsite
  • Chicago Sanitary district canal. Hearings, Seventy-third Congress, second session.

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    • Washington, U.S. Govt. print. off., 1934.
    • 1934
    • 1 Item
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    Text *SBF (United States. Rivers and Harbors Committee (House, 73:1). Hearings)Offsite
  • Report upon Chicago Drainage Canal by International Waterways Commission [microform].

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    • Washington, DC : U.S. G.P.O., 1907
    • 1907
  • Drainage channel and waterway; a history of the effort to secure an effective and harmless method for the disposal of the sewage of the city of Chicago, and to create a navigable channel between Lake Michigan and the Missippi River, by G.P. Brown.

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    • Chicago : R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1894.
    • 1894
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDIA (Brown, G. Drainage channel and waterway ... . 1894)Offsite
  • The Illinois River: physical relations and the removal of the navigation dams : with supplement on the waterway relations of the Sanitary and ship canal of Chicago / by Lyman E. Cooley ...

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    • [Chicago : Clohesey & Co., printers, 1914.
    • 1914
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDNA (Chicago) (Cooley, L. E. Illinois river)Offsite
  • Regulation of elevation and discharge of the Great Lakes : designs for gates, sluices, locks, etc., in the Niagara and St. Clair rivers / by John R. Freeman ... Dec. 30, 1925. Revised to Oct. 1, 1926.

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    • Providence : Akerman standard, [1926]
    • 1926
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDNA (Great Lakes) (Freeman, J. R. Regulation of elevation and discharge of the Great Lakes)Offsite
  • The sanitary district of Chicago, and the Chicago drainage canal: a review of 20 years of engineering work. By Isham Randolph.

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    • [Chicago] 1909.
    • 1909
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDIA p.v. 1 no. 1-12Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Report on the effect of the Chicago drainage canal on the levels of the Great Lakes / [by J.L.P. O'Hanly, civil engineer].

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    • Ottawa : S.E. Dawson, 1896.
    • 1896
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDIA p.v. 7 no. 1-12Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The levels of the lakes as affected by the proposed lakes and gulf waterway : a discussion before the Western Society of Engineers / by George Y. Wisner, L.E. Cooley, L.M. Haupt, Clemens Herschel, William Pierson Judson, J.B. Johnson, Walter P. Rice, D. Farrand Henry, and Benezette Williams.

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    • Chicago, [Il.] : Citizens' Association of Chicago, [1889]
    • 1889-1889
    • 2 Items
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    Text TSB p.v. 29 no. 1-32Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text TSB p.v. 76, no. 1 no. 1-21Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
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  • A review, by Isham Randolph, of John W. Alvord's "Review of the Chicago sanitary and ship canal, with suggestions for a harbor."

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    • [Chicago], [1908?]
    • 1908
  • Nine-foot channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. : Hearings before the Select Committee on Nine-Foot Channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, United States Senate, Sixty-Seventh Congress, fourth session, on S. 4428, a bill for the improvement of commerce and navigation, and for other purposes. October 15, 1923-Jan. 23, 1925.

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    • Washington : Gov. Prtg. Off., 1924-25.
    • 1924-1925
    • 1 Item
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    Text 386.973 Un34 pt.1Off-site
  • Papers relating to the St. Lawrence waterway project and the Chicago drainage canal.

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    • Ottawa, F.A. Acland, 1924.
    • 1924
    • 1 Item
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    Text Econ 3507.5.23Off-site
  • Protest against further diversion of water from Lake Michigan for the Chicago drainage canal. Presented at Washington March 27th, 1912.

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    • Ottawa, R.L. Crain Co., limited, 1912.
    • 1912
    • 1 Item
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    Text Eng 1019.12.3Off-site
  • A guide to the Chicago drainage canal, with geological and historical notes to accompany tourist via the Chicago & Alton transit.

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    • [s.l.], Chicago & Alton Railroad Co., [c1895]
    • 1895
    • 1 Item
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    Text Engin FilesOff-site
  • The lakes and gulf waterway, as related to the Chicago sanitary problem. The general project of a waterway from lake Michigan to the gulf of Mexico ... A preliminary report with appendices, maps and profiles. By L. E. Cooley ...

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    • Chicago, Press of J. W. Weston [1891]
    • 1891
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Eng 1108.91.7Off-site
  • Copy of the report of the International Waterways Commission upon the Chicago Drainage Canal : issued at Toronto, Ontario, on January 4, 1907 ... entitled International Waterways Commission progress report / issued by the Board of Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago.

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    • Chicago : The Board, [1924]
    • 1924
    • 1 Item
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    Text Eng 1100.6Off-site
  • Report upon the Chicago Drainage Canal / by the International Waterways Commission.

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    • Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1907.
    • 1907
    • 1 Item
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    Text Eng 1100.5Off-site
  • Report on the effect of the Chicago drainage canal on the levels of the Great Lakes / [by J.L.P. O'Hanly, civil engineer].

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    • Ottawa : S.E. Dawson, 1896.
    • 1896
    • 1 Item
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    Text Eng 1048.96Off-site
  • The state of Missouri vs. the state of Illinois and the Sanitary district of Chicago / before Frank S. Bright, commissioner of the Supreme court of the United States.

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    • St. Louis : [s.n., 1904?]
    • 1904
    • 1 Item
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    Text TD763 8Off-site
  • A review by Isham Randolph, of John W. Alvord's "Review of the Chicago sanitary and ship canal, with suggestions for a harbor."

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    • [Chicago, s.n., 1908?]
    • 1908
    • 1 Item
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    Text Eng 1100.5Off-site
  • The levels of the lakes as affected by the proposed lakes and gulf waterway. A discussion before the Western Society of Engineers, by George Y. Wisner [and others.

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    • Chicago] Citizens' Association of Chicago [1889]
    • 1889-1889
    • 1 Item
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    Text Engin FilesOff-site
  • Report of the Special Commission appointed by Hon. John R. Tanner, Governor of Illinois.

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    • [Chicago] : The Commission, [1900].
    • 1900
    • 1 Item
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    Text 9181.253.49 1900Off-site
  • The diversion of the waters of the Great Lakes by way of the Sanitary and ship canal of Chicago. A brief of the facts and issues, by Lyman E. Cooley.

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    • [Chicago, Clohesey printers], 1913.
    • 1913
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 9181.265Off-site
  • Report of the sanitary investigations of the Illinois river and its tributaries, with special reference to the effect of the sewage of Chicago on the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers prior to and after the opening of the Chicago drainage canal.

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    • Springfield, Ill., Phillips bros., state printers, 1901.
    • 1901
    • 1 Item
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    Text 9196.49Off-site
  • Report upon the Chicago Drainage Canal by the International Waterways Commission.

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    • Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1907.
    • 1907
    • 1 Item
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    Text 9196.491Off-site
  • Report of the Special Commission appointed by Hon. John R. Tanner, Governor of Illinois.

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    • [Chicago] : The Commission, [1900]
    • 1900
    • 1 Item
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    Text 9181.253.49 1900Off-site
  • The diversion of the waters of the Great Lakes by way of the Sanitary and ship canal of Chicago. A brief of the facts and issues.

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    • [Chicago] [Clohesey printers], 1913.
    • 1913
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 9181.265Off-site

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