Found you on TikTok and I’m very happy the first video I saw was Chicago. As a Chicago native I didn’t even know all of this I only heard about the stockyards
The really interesting thing is that once the locks were built, the river's flow can shift back and forth depending on your location. It's a really strange sensation when you're on the river (especially at the confluence downtown)
Great video, thank you. Now, Chicago has to manually change the direction of the river when they get more rain than rhey can handle. A few days ago Chicago had to dump all their waste water back into Lake Michigan. They can poison the water in both directions. The Lake currents take every thing North along the North Shore (Evanston) into Wisconsin. Enjoy your beautiful sandy beaches folks.
I was a towboater on the Illinois Waterway. If someone fell in the water or got significantly wet they were immediately taken to the nearest health facility for shots.
So nowadays you think they could just... dam it back up to its natural state? There isn't a pollution issue anymore, why case more ecological distress when you can just spend a couple years backfilling?
Great video. CORRECTION @ 3:00- Runoff to the east goes to the Great Lakes, to the west goes to the Mississippi.
Found you on TikTok and I’m very happy the first video I saw was Chicago. As a Chicago native I didn’t even know all of this I only heard about the stockyards
At some point will get the Chicago fire in! 🙏
@@historyfeels3123 Definitely would love that I remember Learning about a little bit in 7th grade but I know there’s a lot more to it 🤗
Great video! Seems I had heard a tale about this reversal, but never knew if it was real or not. Amazing!
The really interesting thing is that once the locks were built, the river's flow can shift back and forth depending on your location. It's a really strange sensation when you're on the river (especially at the confluence downtown)
Incredible work. Great channel!
This makes me excited to go to Chicago again this Thanksgiving even though I was there last year. That’s crazy.
😌 coming from TikTok I love your videos
Sorry for the delay. Love to hear it!
such an underrated channel, keep up the great work
Been following you on Instagram for a while now. Love your stuff man keep it up
Love to hear it, thanks Gerald!
Definitely great video👍
amazing story!
Love your videos, so underrated! But did you get the water flow from the divide backwards?
Great video, thank you. Now, Chicago has to manually change the direction of the river when they get more rain than rhey can handle. A few days ago Chicago had to dump all their waste water back into Lake Michigan. They can poison the water in both directions. The Lake currents take every thing North along the North Shore (Evanston) into Wisconsin. Enjoy your beautiful sandy beaches folks.
Living down stream on the Illinois river I can tell you the river is nothing more than a sewage system.
I was a towboater on the Illinois Waterway. If someone fell in the water or got significantly wet they were immediately taken to the nearest health facility for shots.
I'll throw a message in the bottle there
Fantastic video
Because they made it that way like 100 years ago.
They should of left it how it was at first, because that part of the reason we have pot holes and #2 I didn't contain all my villain power.
0:58 nothing really to think about when it sounds like the Tijuana river
Great documentary. I find it hard to believe that 12% died yearly from pollution. That would be over 1 million people in 10 years. Thanks
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So nowadays you think they could just... dam it back up to its natural state? There isn't a pollution issue anymore, why case more ecological distress when you can just spend a couple years backfilling?
So, I wonder how St. Louis solved its problem after all the Chicago wasted floated down there.
Saint Louis? It affected every big and little river town from Missouri back to Chicago.
@@leadslinger49 Yup. Amazing, isn't it?
This is a travesty, not a triumph of ingenuity.