Chicago Portage - Gallery

Gallery

Map of ancient Lake Chicago in what became the portage region
Mississippi Valley watershed and Chicago
Great Lakes Basin and St. Lawrence watershed
The Illinois and Michigan Canal breached the water divide in 1848. It was largely replaced by the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in 1900

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