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Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

Who: Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Board of Commissioners

What: Naming of the “Barbara J. McGowan Main Office Building”

Where: 100 E. Erie Street, Chicago, IL 60611

When: Thursday, December 8, 2 p.m.

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Board of Commissioners and staff will officially dedicate 100 E. Erie Street, Chicago, IL, as the “Barbara J. McGowan Main Office Building” on Dec. 8 at 2 p.m.

Vice President McGowan has been a voice of reason, a defender of the water environment, equal opportunity advocate, promoter of diversity and pillar on the MWRD Board of Commissioners for over 24 years. She participated in her last Board of Commissioners’ meeting on Nov. 17.

Vice President McGowan was the first African American Vice President at the MWRD; she served as the first interim African American female President in December 2012 and December 2014; and she is the third longest serving Commissioner in the MWRD’s history. She was a backbone on the Board of Commissioners, working to provide guidance and financial oversight and establish policies and procedures in meeting the MWRD’s objective of protecting the regional water environment for more than five million residents from Chicago and 128 surrounding municipalities.



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Established in 1889, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) is an award-winning, special purpose government agency responsible for wastewater treatment and stormwater management in Cook County, Illinois.

 

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