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Mounds of excavated materials stand along the side of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal nearly three months after it was filled with water.

A view taken from the banks shows the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal nearly three months after it was filled with water.

A view taken from a bridge shows the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal nearly three months after it was filled with water.

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

A view shows a full Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal five months after construction completed.

A large truss structure stands on the banks of a partially filled Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Railroad tracks run through the construction site at the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Two large cantilever conveyor cranes remove excavated earth from the empty Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

A large cantilever conveyor crane removes excavated earth from the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Construction workers stand in and along the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal as a large cantilever conveyor crane moves excavated earth.

A side view shows a rock wall lining a section of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal post-construction.

Smoke fills the sky over a section of the empty Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal post-construction.

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

A large cantilever conveyor crane moves earth excavated during the construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Large piles of rock stand along a section of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal post-construction.

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

An aerial view shows "The Great Two Mile Curve," at Romeoville, ten months after the filling of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. The location of a recently removed passenger bridge can be seen in the lower right corner of the photo.

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

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

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.

A view of the spoil banks, called the "Sierra Mountains," shows several piles of earth created by the digging of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Two women pose for a photograph standing in front of the spoil banks created by the digging of 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…

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.