The Sanitary District of Chicago and the Panama Canal

The Sanitary District Trustees decide the major work is done. The next day, January 2, they head out to a spot on the city's southwest side where there's one little temporary dam holding back the river from this massive 28-mile canal that's waiting for all that water. Chicago starts humping it to get the dams ready to open before St. Louis can get an injunction.

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