"Engineering Inequality: Regional Environmental Implications of the Reversal of the Chicago River" Sylvia Hood Washington, Northwestern University, March 16, 2001, 3:30-5:30pm, Newberry Library

The reversal of the Chicago River in the late nineteenth century reduced the amount of raw sewage flowing into Lake Michigan. Yet how did it affect the surrounding regions? This paper considers this oft-neglected development -- and the inequalities it spawned -- by considering the lawsuits brought against the Chicago Sanitary District by Canada and the surrounding states.

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