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Illinois Waterway
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Illinois Waterway
The
Illinois Waterway
system consists of of water from the mouth of the
Calumet River
to the mouth of the
Illinois River
at
Grafton
,
Illinois
. It is a system of rivers, lakes, and canals which provide a shipping connection from the
Great Lakes
to the
Gulf of Mexico
via the
Mississippi River
. The
Illinois and Michigan Canal
opened in 1849. In 1900, the
Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
replaced it and reversed the flow of the
Chicago River
so it no longer flowed into
Lake Michigan
. The
United States Army Corps of Engineers
maintains a navigation channel in the waterway.
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