"How and why the flow of the Chicago River was reversed," NBC Chicago

NBC Chicago: How and why the flow of the Chicago River was reversed

Only in Chicago can it be said that the river flows in reverse. NBC Chicago’s Lexi Sutter explains how that came to be the case.

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