Chicago Sanitary And Ship Canal District Joins National Register Of Historic Places
Lockport Historic District, Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal, Swing Bridge, Sixteenth Street, Lockport, Ill. General view of the bridge in operation, via Built in America.
View of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Butterfly Dam from the north in 1979, via \<a href=\"http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/index.html\"\>Built in America\<\/a\>.
Far view of a bridge and locks on the Sanitary and Ship Canal at Lockport, Illinois. This image was taken as part of a Chicago Railways Company Trolley Trip in 1908. Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.
A 1907 portrait of members of Chicago Association of Commerce standing on a dock during drainage canal trip in Chicago. Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.
This is a 1909 view of barges moving along the drainage canal at South Kedzie Avenue with a railroad bridge spanning the canal in the background. Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.
This 1979 photo of the Lockport Historic District, Illinois & Michigan Canal, in Lockport features the I&M Canal, looking northwards, showing the Ninth Street Highway Bridge in the background. Photo via Built in America.
This is a photo of the power house on the Chicago Drainage Canal, in Lockport, Ill., taken between 1900 and 1910, via the Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection.
The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal district is joining the National Register of Historic Places, so we dug up a few old photos from the Library of Congress and the Chicago History Museum. The manmade waterway is one of the greatest achievements of civil engineering.
A news release states:
Several dams, locks, control stations, spillways and the canal itself along the man-made waterway contribute to the significance of the district. Construction on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal began in 1892, and by the time work ended in 1908 it had become the largest public works project undertaken until that time. The innovative equipment and techniques employed during its construction were used in other large projects, most notably the Panama Canal.
The district includes landmarks in Cook, DuPage and Will counties and includes the dam, locks, control stations, spillways and the shipping canal along the manmade waterway.
