He and his family moved from a three-bedroom home to a four-bedroom home, about a half-mile away, in River Forest, Ill.

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But Robert Sheridan, a veteran developer and investor of River Forest, Ill.

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The flat-roofed, rectangular glass house, with white travertine marble floors and decks, floats elegantly on steel supports along the banks of the Fox River in Plano, Ill.

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High water on the Illinois River near Peoria, Ill.

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Across the Mississippi River in Alton, Ill.

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Even if the trace elements of PCBs that can be found in Hudson River fish posed a danger to humans, the EPA's solution is ill-conceived.

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"A study was released about three years ago that showed swimmers are 50 percent more likely to become ill if they swim within 50 yards of storm drain outfalls or river mouths -- and that's where the surf is best, " says Michelle Kremer, interim executive director of Surfrider Foundation.

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The Metropolitan Police service, Lord Clarke said, "was ill-prepared" for the accident, with no specific plan to deal with a major river disaster and few rescue craft available.

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