1900 Map of Des Plaines
USGS Topo · Published 1900About this map
The Des Plaines River corridor serves as the industrial and transit spine of this landscape at the close of the nineteenth century. Parallel waterways including the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Sanitary and Ship Canal cut through the terrain near Lemont, illustrating the massive engineering efforts to connect the Great Lakes to the Mississippi watershed. This transit hub is further defined by a dense web of steel, where the Chicago and Alton Railroad and the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad facilitate the movement of goods and people across the region.
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