State, feds moving to require cleanup of Chicago River for recreation
Chicago Tribune
Aug 19 2010

In virtually every other city in the nation, it would be illegal to pump out partially treated sewage teeming with the amount of disease-causing bacteria that churns endlessly into the Chicago River. That may soon change for Chicago. But as a state rulemaking panel moves closer to requiring Chicago's fetid waterways to be more like other rivers, a simmering dispute among scientists and policymakers is becoming more intense.


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