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Paperback The Tunnel Under the Lake: The Engineering Marvel That Saved Chicago Book

ISBN: 0810134748

ISBN13: 9780810134744

The Tunnel Under the Lake: The Engineering Marvel That Saved Chicago

(Part of the Second To None: Chicago Stories Series)

The Tunnel under the Lake recounts the gripping story of how the young city of Chicago, under the leadership of an audacious engineer named Ellis Chesbrough, constructed a two-mile tunnel below Lake Michigan in search of clean water.

Despite Chicago's location beside the world's largest source of fresh water, its low elevation at the end of Lake Michigan provided no natural method of carrying away waste. As a result, within a few years...

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