Anyone who knows knows that
Chicago is full of diverse metropolis, full of culture, with people who are
proud to be Chicagoans, and a remarkable spirit in the veins of the earth
Chicagoland.
Yes, the veins. Chicago was built on a marshy swamp.
Algonquin people occupied the area for centuries using their swamp and
connecting roads to travel through the Great Lakes to the east and the
Mississippi.
In 1673, Native American tribes showed these explorers
of the region called "Portage Rock". quickly see the potential of the
waterways of the Great Lake of the Chicago River and the Mississippi, which
marked the region for the future.
Login Lake Michigan to Des
Plaines in the spring was an expansive oozing strip called "Mud
Lake". In this area, Chicago climbed above the mire. The
first settler was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who was Haitian and French
origin, settled in the Chicago River in the 1770s and married a native woman
Potawatomi.
In the mid 1800s, Chicago had
grown to a metropolis of hundreds of thousands of people. Windy City has not looked back since.
River of Muck
Despite the weather, which can be downright bitter in
the winters and extremely stuffy in summer; and the Chicago River, which caused
decades of sewage backup and contamination of the water, the Chicago continued
to grow.
The residents called the Chicago
River "the stinking river" because of the large amounts of waste
water and pollution flowing into the river from the development of industries
and people. In the mid 1800s, the prosperous vision wealthy residents and the future began to work for the creation of a system
of channels in a more efficient way to the river stinking the Des Plaines
river. As they dug the channel through Mud Lake successfully connect the
Chicago river Des Plaines, workers were plagued by leeches, mosquitoes and
bacteria.
Gurdon S. Hubbard, who was an
employee for the American Fur Company and later to become a successful business
in Chicago and leader of the city, describes the journey, or rather dragging
the trade boats through Mud Lake before that it was
developed.
"The lake was full of these abominable black plagues, and they stuck so
tight to the skin which broke in pieces if force was used to remove them,
experience has taught the use of a tobacco decoction for remove, and it was
used a good success.
"After we get rid of the leeches,
we were assailed by myriads of mosquitoes, which made sleep without hope, even
if we tried the softer spots in the field to our beds. Those who had dodged the
lake has undergone great suffering, its members to become swollen and
inflamed, and sufferings are not closed for two or three days. "
Transformation of the marshes
In 1900, the health district of Chicago built the
canal and reversed the flow of the Chicago River. Before flowing into the lake,
the river now flows from the lake to facilitate water transport. Incredible stubbornness, sheer nonsense kind or
naked determination propelled the locals to keep refining, keep building, keep
fixing and persevere.
René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, famous French
explorer had to say about the possibilities of the region.
"This
confirms me more in mind that the river Chicago [Plains] could not
clean the mouth of the channel [Chicago river] is that when the lake is full of
ice that blocks the most navigable mouths. "Real marshy Chicago became a city built on perseverance and vision. Through all the ups and downs on the backs of immigrants and freed slaves, by any political obscurity, the city of Chicago has grown to be the shining example of real America. A line from the movie Field of Dreams; "If you build it, they will come" depicts the spirit Windy City since the beginning.
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