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A close up view shows the engineering included in the Bear Trap Dam including two large pieces of wheel-based machinery.

Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago pose for a group photo on a bridge located at the base of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at Lockport.

Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago pose for a group photo atop the Bear Trap Dam located at the base of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at Lockport.

A view shows houses along the far side of "The Great Two Mile Curve" at Romeoville prior to the filling of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

A truss bridge extends across the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal near "The Great Two Mile Curve" at Romeoville.

Two women pose for a photograph standing in front of the spoil banks created by the digging of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

A Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal bridge stands over a full waterway.

Large utility structures stand on the side of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

A truss bridge spans a section of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

A view from an unidentified bridge shows a section of the partially filled Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Two cranes stand on the right side of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

A view shows the "The Great Two Mile Curve" at Romeoville, prior to the filling of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

An interior view shows the construction of the Bear Trap Dam located at the base of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at Lockport.

Construction workers labor on a large structure along a waterway in an unidentified town.

Chief engineer of the Sanitary District, George Wisner (left), president of the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co., William Lydon (middle), and a third unidentified gentleman, pose for a group photo in downtown Chicago atop the large dipper of a…

Debris lies on the bottom of a by-pass in downtown Chicago.

Large piles of rock stand under the Santa Fe Railway Bridge at Lemont during the construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Building materials surround an opening to a structure under construction.

Workers continue construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal near downtown Chicago.

Governor John Riley Tanner meets with members of the Canal Commissioners, the Special Inspection Commissioners, and the Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago to determine whether or not the state will issue permissions to open the main…

Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago break the temporary dam at the west fork of the south branch of the Chicago River to allow water from Lake Michigan to begin filling the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago stand with shovels while awaiting approval to open the Bear Trap Dam at Lockport, which would send the water from the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal into the Des Plaines River, eventually reaching the…

A view from the bottom of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal shows two bridges on the day that water began to fill the canal.

Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago stand at the foot of the Bear Trap Dam two days before the first water from the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal would be released into the Des Plaines River.

A side view shows the Bear Trap Dam seven days after water was released from Lake Michigan into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.