Huge fish spurs call to 're-reverse' Chicago River

Friday, August 19, 2011

CHICAGO -- The city was in a predicament. By the late 1800s, the slow-moving Chicago River had become a cesspool of sewage and factory pollution oozing into Lake Michigan, the source of drinking water for the bustling metropolis.

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