More than 100 years ago, Chicago became home to an engineering feat: The flow of the Chicago River was reversed, diverting sewage from flowing into Lake Michigan, the city’s source of drinking water.

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Nearly half a million gallons of liquid asphalt spilled into the storied canal of the Chicago River earlier this year, leading to a massive cleanup that is continuing almost nine months later. The U.S ...

The 28-mile Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal was the product of a monumental feat of engineering that reversed the flow of the Chicago River, but no one can deny it is saddled with a rather unpleasant ...

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CHICAGO (AP) – Authorities say crews have recovered the body of a fourth person who was on a boat that crashed and overturned in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. The Illinois Department of Natural ...