Duffy's path to his Chicago River-view office started behind the bar at Chuck's in Lake Geneva, Wis.
About 4 miles northeast of Cicero we reach the entrance to the South Branch of the Chicago River.
Chicago was preparing for its own big parade and an eye-catching local custom: dying the Chicago River green.
They at times mistook the Merc for the Merchandise Mart, a 4-million-square-foot retail emporium on the Chicago River.
Even the mighty Chicago River, proclaimed as one of the great engineering efforts of its age, may be re-engineered.
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According to a 2011 report by American Rivers, a nonprofit environmental group, parts of the Chicago River are 70% undisinfected wastewater.
In my hometown, the Chicago River -- you probably could not find anything alive in there -- (laughter) -- four decades ago.
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The sandy beach with palm trees that opened along the Seine last year is unlikely to be imitated along the banks of the Chicago River.
In one instance, we proposed reestablishing the natural division between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watersheds (essentially disconnecting them) in order to restore the banks of the Chicago River.
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Hyde Park is based in Chicago and Huron River Ventures is in Ann Arbor.
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Louis sought a court injunction, but this engineering feat made the Chicago the first river in the world to flow away from its mouth.
On a bitterly cold January morning Spanish businessman Javier Capella sits in a warm General Growth boardroom in Chicago overlooking the river, talking about his dream to make his handbags as hot in the U.S. as they are back home.
Schafer, 50, owns Schafer Fisheries in Thomson, Illinois, a Mississippi River town 150 miles west of Chicago.
In Chicago, where I live, the city dyes the river green, parades get scandalous and the entire town toddles around in green clothes and Mardi Gras beads.
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In Chicago, urban kayaking has boomed thanks to the city's calm, easily navigable river surrounded by densely packed, scenic skyscrapers.
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