😂😂😂 Gold.

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Revenge is a beverage best served cold…

Classic comment!😂

St. Louis shrugged, and sent it back in kegs, cans and bottles

Cause they had to have a excuse to get rid of old structures just like the fires

My mother always showed us the Columbian Exposition coins that my grandmother brought home to their house on the North Side (North Avenue and St. Michael's Court).

Railroads and it's location it was going to be huge. Regardless of any issues

Their liberal democrats ruined the city even faster than it was built. A true shame, but a predictable one.

The underground railroads

Please view my comments at the top of the page and my theory about this, which will probably die with me forever unresearched lol. But I think its true!

Well if you ever make it down to southern Illinois, you look me up lol 😂😍

alright ms cherie 👀

I was born in Chicago and I did hear about reversing the river... and even as a child I pictured all the poo going the other way, and basically crapping up the Mississippi River and the Gulf. It seemed underhanded and political. However, from a purely selfish standpoint, Lake Michigan is still a lot closer than the gulf, and I'm happy it was spared further destruction. Its since fared better than Lake Erie, which is basically an industrial toxic waste dump even today, at least on the bottom of it. Sad. Humans have always been well, short sighted idiots when it comes to their own waste. Which is why its best our population is kept low relative to the planet. .....oops.............

In more recent times Dems have returned the cesspool to the city by turning sanity around 180 degrees.

I grew up in Minneapolis suburbs and learned this on a college trip. Love this series!!!

Additionally they build houses in every hole they can find and sell! In germany in the coaling areas the surface levels fell up to 10m through mining. And now they stop pumping the groundwater. Nice situation for the homeowners.

That’s one way to keep your pans from being stolen😂

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial_(soap) "Armour had produced soap since 1888; its laundry soap[5] was made from tallow, a by-product of Armour's meat production processes."

Armour hotdogs etc as well.. yikes

Dial is still a good product with excellent antiseptic properties.

​@@DWalsh-bg1cu good grief Proctor and Gamble BOT

I just accidentally stabbed my wrist at work and cut into my artery and tendon. When I went to the hospital the nurses and doctor told me to wash the wound with dial soap because it has the best antibacterial properties than any other major brand soap.

England revolutionized water treatment. You should be proud of your country!

Pretty sure the Thames and even the Clyde are the same! Huge reversal! Even with more cleaning up needing to be done :)

Filtering was done eventually but that doesn't kill the bugs. Drinking water now is filtered and chlorinated. The lead pipes are another problem.

Up past the Civil War microscopic life was unknown to people. Doctors thought that sanitation ment wiping their knives before cutting on the next patient.

Kansas City Mo. doesn't pollute the Missouri River with nasty sewage, the Blue & Kansas River that do flow into the Missouri, get the nasty waste dumped in them instead. St Louis drinks what KCMO flushes! LOL

THAT"S the Chicago way!!!!

Happens many coastal cities around both U.S. and Canadian areas on N.American continent. Most coastal human habitat in countries around the planet do contribute with toilet mentalities toward nearly all seas and oceans.

In the 1890's if you fell into the Chicago river you were considered a dead man, you'd have typhoid and cholera within days.

Did they ever clean up the poop and needles in Portland of does it Flo into The Willamette River?!?

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Waving from the banks of the Cuyahoga.

​​@@WillyMcCoy50No, it all ends up in the river.

Very insightful.

That’s life. History tells that so many times.

VERY down to Earth, and can be brutal!

And streaming all the pollution to the rest of the state.

WOW , that's terrible , what happen to her husband . My Memaw never learned to drive either . I was going to teach her but She said I drove to fast lol I'm 60 now and was born in 63,so My Grandparents talked about Chicago and they told me about The diseases people used to get back before We knew what We know now but We're from Alabama .

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Cool story.

This has absolutely nothing to do with this video, except that she lived in Chicago. This is so completely pointless.

@@halifornia2001- It reminded me because they talked about a quarry in here. Go insult somebody else.

I always liked the way new buildings were always sprouting up. I can remember watching all the buildings going up along Lake Shore Drive in the early 1950s, Marina Towers, the John Hancock Building, and the Sears Tower, among many others. Later, I even had a part time job at Sears Tower! Great city for restaurants, architecture and change; lousy political corruption. If the political corruption disappeared, it could be the greatest city in the World.

Well, if that were true, there would be no river. We fixed it but now l8beral idiots are destroying the WHOLE city for black people. Well done.

Not Man. "Mankind"

Children drank beer long after that because of unsafe drinking water. Also, commercially sold milk was sold with chalk or powdered paint in it to increase profits. That was in the early 19th century, IIRC.

​@@pazza4555they were selling baby formula in China that was chock full of melamine only a few short years ago. Greed is never kn life support.

People in ancient times knew instinctively to add wine to water to "disinfect" it, even though they knew nothing about microbes until Louis Pasteur made that clear.

To Anheuser Busch ....

Yup, city was just looking to piss on or off other towns.... I'd never live in IL to begin with.

They did the same with the Thames. That wide boulevard in between Parliament and the river didn’t used to be there- that’s where the sewers are!

So do I. Awful smell!

Yeah they prob don't want to mention the fact they sent their waste down to other towns lol.

Everyone in Chicago knows that the ground is frozen until the middle of April.

Maybe we need to put more money and effort into individual sanitation needs, ie. free restrooms for everyone.

Those *huge* (1000+ feet) are built- and stay- within the Great Lakes Basin; they are "landlocked". You'll want to confirm the following ↓ : The lowest non-movable bridge between Chicago and the Mississippi River has an air draft of 19-20 feet - surface of the water to the underside of the bridge over the navigable channel. The only two other navigable ways in/out of the Great Lakes are the Erie Canal and the Canadian canal (sorry 🇨🇦, I forgot its name and locations) that bypasses the Niagara Falls; each of these are vessel size-restricted and contain locks.

What this documentary underlines is that no one cares less about Americans than other Americans.

Many "down state" (south of I-80) Illinoisians toy with the idea of making the Chicago metropolitan area its own state. With polluting our water, taking most of the state's politics along its tax money there, not sure we'd miss its company. 😂

None of us were around back then. However, the corruption and criminal activity of the political power of that city are still here. Right, Hillary?

@@gnorman8852 Why would you want to cutoff your nose to spite your face. I find it kind of interesting that there's this same sort of talk in Illinois that there is in NYS in regards to NYC. You cleave the two cities away from their States and you're left with an 85 percent drop in gross state product. You want to be Mississippi? Because that's how you get to be Mississippi.

@@phuturephunk You'd be more so like Iowa or the Dakota's. One large are with about the same general ideas, instead of one big area ruled by a spot that shares nothing with the rest of the area, aside from the name. No one cares about state GDP when you're being taxed and ran over politically. Also, no that's not how you become Mississippi. Mississippi would have to be something big first for that comparison to work.

.....effect.

I have studied the history of the Chicago and Sanitary Ship Canal. I worked right next to it for years. It's been said that more dirt and rock was removed to make the canal than was moved to make the Panama Canal! The dolomitic rock has fossils of cephalopods that can reach over twenty feet long!

The smaller communities along the river probably did not have the resources to fight legal battles for years. Peoria was the largest city upriver of St Louis and it was a lot smaller. I can't imagine how bad it would have been in the Joliet area!. I went to high school near Peru, and our campus extended down to the river and when we took hikes there (about a mile from the buildings) there were lots of "unmentionable" items floating in the river. We did not fish or drink or swim there, just stayed on the bank and kept clean. This was late 60's.

They are still being effected by Chicago sewage.

The area in question, is still being flowed into the Grand Calumet river, from the waste water plants & centers of Gary, East Chicago, Whiting, and Hammond, Indiana into the little Calumet river, the Des Plaines, and into the Illinois river, which is the confluence, of the Kankakee, The Grand Calumet, the little Calumet rivers, plus the Kankakee, the Iroquois river, and the DesPlaines, rivers make up the bulk of the Illinois river, which adds several rivers to the already lengthening list, before it dumps into the mighty Mississippi River, … like the DuPage, The Fox, The Rock river, and others combine to make the Illinois river a very long, and influential river in Illinois, feeding the Mississippi River, … plus the Old Hammond, Indiana Lead plant has also tainted the drinking waters …of East Chicago, and Hammond, Indiana, before continuing downstream to the convergence of the DesPlaines River, … and all towns, and suburbs along the way, … plus the facts that the old Standard Oil plant still use the waters of Lake Michigan, to continue the pollution thereof, … even more so, … It would make me quite happy to see a moratorium on all of Chicago/Wisconsin, from using these water ways in order to stop the continuing pollution of our natural resources, throughout the nation, … even waters of the rest of Indiana’s resources, must abide by the laws created by the EPA, and other federal entities, need to be restricted to filtering, refiltering the waters in use by the masses, that habitate throughout the land, … I guess the one main way to depopulate an area, is to either poison the inhabitants, or create wars, to do the same thing, … I moved away from that area, because of the cancers that one could, would be subjected to, too, … I could not move north because of an accident at work, where, my back was damaged from the work load placed upon me, … and because of biased standing in the community, I was considered a pariah, so I retired, & moved south, to a warmer climate… where my bones do not ache as much, … and often consider this my home now, …

Well isn't it great when you can dump your crap on another city!! Dr. Low correctly speaks of the unfairness to the natives. Hell the Europeans were quite willing to screw the cities/towns down river for their own success. In our politically correct,bend over backwards to be sensitive to others feelings, culture we have today it utterly foreign to us to hear how hard-hearted people were to each other, to animals and the environment not that long ago. I'm 62, as boy I knew plenty of men, due to the circumstances of their time were hard as nails. We need to remember, whatever morality you want to exert here, that all the comforts we enjoy today are due to these people; their steel-spined determination and their mistakes.

@@federyko00 Practically all of human history has been one if wars, subjugation, rape, enslavement. I think, socially, that since WW2 this notion has been largely set aside. Given how hard this has been for practically every culture, as even North American aboriginals fought amongst themselves etc. However regrettable, at least to some, it most important to go forward in fairness. We cannot undo the issues of the past. For in the past, and perhaps in the future, these things were not sins, but economic expansion. You can look in askance at all of this, but remember all our current comforts that are shared by many around the come from these beginnings.

Unions are ruining this nation and driving jobs off to other countries...... Altogether they have made theirself useless. I don't need more ticks sucking off me, I'd never join a union, it's just another game from foolmasons.

So is chicago guilty?

Big difference in how they were treated, paid, and where they worked. same as many other industrial and social situations.

wouldn't be public access television without race baiting BS

Chief, any group of people (no matter how they are "othered") get treated differently and usually for the worse. American history, and world history to an extent, is riddled with stories of that decades (though all were oppressed for far longer) in-vogue peon-group being walked all over and treated as subhuman. It is important to understand how that affected the trajectory of those peoples lives and those of their descendants. So we know how best to remedy those effects in the future.

Shit rolls down hill? STATE?😂

Probably was from the homeless bums. The area that has the most raw sewage smell is Stickney, home of one of the World's largest wastewater treatment plants, and home to the World's largest and most colorful dragonflies and eighteen foot sunflowers! I used to work downstream from the plant on the Sanitary and Ship Canal. Smelled it every day! Not too bad for its' size!

We humans aren't so bright sometimes. Now we have cities fixing Combined Sewer Overflow under court orders because our dated sanitary sewer systems still dump into waterways after storms. I accidentally typed Samurai sewer systems, which is way cooler.

@@pazza4555I don’t think you understand that the technology wasn’t developed yet. I’m sure if it was, then we wouldn’t be using overflow sewage systems.

No, the Chicago River never burned, but the house I lived in had burned down in 1871, as my ancestors looked on from Lake Michigan. They rebuilt it.

The only time I ever kept a fish in Illinois was when I "noodled" a salmon at Illinois State Beach at Wadsworth. Delicious. Go out a mile on Lake Michigan, there, and you can drink the water right out of the lake. You do have to dodge the ore carriers, though.

Known as the "Great Chicago Flood". A pile driver punched the hole, and a circulating bunch of foam drinking cups could be seen on the news every night near the hole.

Having been born, educated, and worked there, I'm with you!

No way I’m kayaking in that.

Probably not back then either, likely a big time story, ground was froze, they used a drag to open it up, those ol bois didn't do anything but pose for pictures and hold shovels, likely masters and clowns in the local masonic temple.

You mean European slaves not immigrants.

You must be mistaken. The newly accepted woke take is that practically nothing important was done or invented without African American greatness.

They never let the truth get in the way of their pipe dreams of AA amazingness 😂😂😂😂😂😂

​@@tomfuelery2905woke means awakened You can now see everything around you Did you watch the entire documentary? Doubt it

​@@tomrobertson3236Yep, that is what the word means. Just like War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. Well I have to go, see, I am an anti-fascist, so I am gonna beat the snot outta some people with different ideas, to help support the deep state and their wealthy corporate donors. Stay woke bub.

it is actually reversed because the flow direction changes

Chicago always was a place that you had to work inordinately hard to make a decent living.

Pride was the first sin of the devil, most people burn in hell because they don't want to repent of their pride and be humble. The Bible says over and over how pride is foolish and God resists the proud.

Yes it was rerouted and that made the Chicago river flow the opposite direction. Before the big dig the river started a short ways from Lake Michigan and only collected rain water which barely flowed into the lake. By joining up to the Des Plaines river it flowed west to the Mississippi River.

still don't understand. I have in mind that map they showed in the video, and it makes no sense to me at all -- I'm Polish....@@chuckfry1227