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Construction materials and equipment lie on the top of the Bear Trap Dam.

Construction workers stand among building equipment and materials during construction of the Bear Trap Dam.

Several large rocks and pieces of construction equipment stand on top of the Bear Trap Dam construction site.

Construction materials fill the Bear Trap Dam construction site at the base of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Several cranes stand on top of the Bear Trap Dam during construction.

Construction workers labor on top of a portion of the Bear Trap Dam located at the base of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at Lockport.

Workers and engineers examine the progress of the construction of the Bear Trap Dam at the base of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

A view taken from the top of the construction at the Bear Trap Dam shows a portion of the dam with a large wheel on top.

An aerial view shows the construction taking place on the Bear Trap Dam at the base of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Men stand on top of the Bear Trap Dam nearly nine months after water was released from Lake Michigan into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Workers construct an additional structure atop the Bear Trap Dam more than ten months after water was released from Lake Michigan into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

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

A man poses for a picture under a large cylinder built into the wall of the Bear Trap Dam at the base of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at Lockport.

A landscape view shows the length of the Bear Trap Dam during the winter.

A side view shows the incomplete floodgates of the Bear Trap Dam during construction.

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

A landscape view shows the snowy Bear Trap Dam and Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal during construction.

A landscape view shows the Bear Trap Dam surrounded by water more than ten months after water was released from Lake Michigan into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Construction workers labor on the Bear Trap Dam spillway.

Cranes lift construction materials next to the Bear Creek Dam spillway construction site.

A side view of the Bear Trap Dam shows water releasing from the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal into the Des Plaines River.

A landscape view shows vegetation growing around the Bear Trap Dam on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

A man looks on from the Bear Trap Dam nearly nine months after water was released from Lake Michigan into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

An aerial view shows the top of the Bear Trap Dam and the surrounding waterways nearly nine months after water was released from Lake Michigan into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

A view from the top of the Bear Trap Dam shows water pouring on of the side of the dam nearly nine months after water was released from Lake Michigan into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.