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Illinois Waterway Bond Work Advances With Locks and Dams
The Illinois Waterway project proceeds under Governor Small's direction with bids for Lockport and Marseilles locks. The plan calls for four dams and five locks along the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers, 110 by 600 feet, 14 feet deep, enabling 9 000 ton cargo moves from New Orleans to Chicago. The project aims to stay under the 20 million dollar bond authorization while court cases and land acquisitions proceed.
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John Dickinson Sherman Ilinois
Governor Small
Col. C. R. Miller
Department of Public Works and Buildings
Lockport
Utica
Chicago Sanitary District
Des Plaines River
Marseilles
William L. Sackett
Division of Waterways
Starved Rock
Sackett
DeSoto
Mississippi River
Radisson's
Joliet’s
Canada
Marquette’s
St. Ignace
Mich
LaSalle’s
Texas
Chicago
Radisson
Hudson's Bay Company
Marquette
LaSalle
Joliet
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Gulf of Mexico
New World
North America
Chicago Portage
Great Lakes
Chicago River
Desplaines
Mississippi Valley
Earth
Illinois
San
New Orleans
United States
Mississippi
Atlantic
Europe
Gulf
Panama Canal
South America
Soo
Lachine
St. Clair
Iinois
Alton
War Department
William M. Black
Fifty-first General Assembly
M. G. Barnes
Secretary of War
General Assembly
Kankakee River
Illinois River
Illinois and Michigan Canal
Cairo
Desplaines River
Pittsburgh
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
County Court
LaSalle County
State Supreme Court
Small
Lockport Lock
Barnes
Wisconsin
United States Supreme Court
Sanitary District
Niagara
St. Lawrence
Fune
Indiana
Lake Michigan
State Line