Moira McCormick

Beautiful

How Chicago

Became

Ellis S. Chesbrough:

How would you solve this problem?

How would you solve this problem?

Ellis S. Chesbrough

Chicago Board of Sewerage Commissioners, 1855

Klotho levels in the blood

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Average population

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Ellis S. Chesbrough

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What made Chesbrough so innovative?

Thank you!

Cain, Louis P. “Raising and Watering a City: Ellis Sylvester Chesbrough and Chicago's First Sanitation System.” Technology and Culture, vol. 13, no. 3, 1972, pp. 353–372. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3102489.

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Cain, Louis P. “Sanitation in Chicago: A Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis.” Sanitation in Chicago, www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/300017.html.

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Einhorn, Robin. “Street Grades, Raising.” Street Grades, Raising, www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1202.html.

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Grossman, Ron. “Raising Chicago out of the Mud.” Chicagotribune.com, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2019, www.chicagotribune.com/history/ct-raising-chicago-streets-flashback-1122-jm-20151118-story.html.

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Young, David. “DECEMBER 31, 1855.” Chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2018, www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-01-19-9701190040-story.html.

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Young, David. “Raising the Chicago Streets out of the Mud.” Chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2019, www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/chi-chicagodays-raisingstreets-story-story.html.

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