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I enjoyed John McCarron’s tongue-in-cheek commentary on the “invasion” of Illinois’ waterways (Op-Ed, Jan. 5), but he did err in one fact:
The Chicago River became tributary to the Illinois River in 1848, with the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. This, too, was another nefarious plot aided by the federal government, one that turned a sleepy village built on swampland into one of the greatest cities in the world. In 1998 we will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the I&M Canal.
