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Dust jacket notes: This lavishly illustrated history of Chicago as freight handler to the nation chronicles the vital roles of waterborne trade and transportation in building a lakeside metropolis on the swampland that the Illiniwek once called Checagou. Louis Jolliet, the first European explorer to the area, recognized that a waterway between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River could link the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, making Checagou the fulcrum of east-west and north-south transportation for the continent. Upon completion of the I&M canal in 1848, Chicago quickly became one of the busiest ports in the world, attracting thousands of schooners, barks, sloops, and paddle-wheel steamships. More than 100 illustrations and maps-along with tales of majestic sailing ships, piracy, terrible storms, and tragic shipwrecks-portray the eventful history of Chicago's waterways. Young describes the reversal of the Chicago River, which helped tp clean the city and flood it with new life. Chicago flourished as a port of entry to the West and transportation hub, despite the disastrous Great Fire of 1871 that destroyed much of the city, including the docks and ships moored along the Chi

Author

David M. Young

Publisher

DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780875802824

Subjects

Business, Social Science, History