Des Plaines River

Physical barriers have been constructed along the Des Plaines River and the Illinois and Michigan Canal to prevent Asian carp from crossing into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal during flooding.

Mark Biel: One If by Land, Two If by Sea Mark Biel 2011

Physical barriers have been constructed along the Des Plaines River and the Illinois and Michigan Canal to prevent Asian carp from crossing into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal during flooding.

Mark Biel: One If by Land, Two If by Sea Mark Biel 2011

Rupa, what do we know about additional bones found along the Des Plaines River today?

CNN Transcript May 29, 2009 2009

As we go to air tonight, more bones found in the Des Plaines River just 20 minutes from the Petersons ` home.

CNN Transcript May 29, 2009 2009

The breaking news tonight, a woman ` s body has just washed ashore at the Des Plaines River in dense brush.

CNN Transcript May 21, 2009 2009

As you know, last week we had a torso found that fell on the banks of this river, Des Plaines River in Shanahone.

CNN Transcript May 29, 2009 2009

On January 17, 1900, in the culmination of a grand engineering scheme to protect the drinking water supply for residents of Chicago, the last barrier separating the Des Plaines River from Lake Michigan was removed, thus reversing the flow of the Chicago River.

Debra Shore: River Reversal: Chicago's Special Anniversary 2009

State police removed the remains by boat five hours after a river cleanup crew came across the badly decomposed body along the side of the Des Plaines River.

CNN Transcript May 29, 2009 2009

In one of the most remarkable feats of civil engineering of the century, the District dug two canals and built a lock where the river meets the lake, reversing the flow of the Chicago River, so that Chicago's sewage now flows away from Lake Michigan, to the Des Plaines River and eventually to the Mississippi River.

Jimmy Seidita: Governor Quinn Should Appoint Laurene von Klan to MWRD Vacancy 2009

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: State police removed the remains by boat five hours after a river cleanup crew came across the badly decomposed body along the side of the Des Plaines River.

CNN Transcript May 29, 2009 2009