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The Tunnel Under the Lake The Engineering Marvel That Saved Chicago (Second to None Chicago Stories) by Benjamin Sells [#633519]
Free Download The Tunnel Under the Lake: The Engineering Marvel That Saved Chicago (Second to None: Chicago Stories) by Benjamin Sells
Oct. 23, 2019 | English | ASIN: B07ZCNLRWQ | 5 hrs 12 mins | M4B & MP3@126 kbps
312 to 316 MB | Unabridged | Retail
Narrator: Michael Hanko
Despite Chicago's location beside the world's largest source of fresh water, its low elevation at the end of Lake Michigan provided no natural method of carrying away waste. As a result, within a few years of its founding, Chicago began to choke on its own sewage collecting near the shore. The befouled environment, giving rise to outbreaks of sickness and cholera, became so acute that even the ravages and costs of the US Civil War did not distract city leaders from taking action.
Chesbrough's solution was an unprecedented tunnel - five feet in diameter, lined with brick, and dug 60 feet beneath Lake Michigan. Construction began from the shore as well as the tunnel's terminus in the lake. With workers laboring in shifts and with clay carted away by donkeys, the lake and shore teams met under the lake three years later, just inches out of alignment.
When it opened in March 1867, observers, city planners, and grateful citizens hailed the tunnel as the "wonder of America and of the world".
Benjamin Sells narrates in vivid detail the exceptional skill and imagination it took to save this storied city from itself. The book is published by Northwestern University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
"Benjamin Sells offers an interesting, meticulous, and thoroughgoing addition to the trove of books on Chicago."(David Solzman, author of The Chicago River)
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