Levee37 project breaks ground

PUBLISHED: March 13, 2009 at 8:23 PM CDT | UPDATED: August 23, 2021 at 12:29 AM CDT

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Ground was broken today for Levee37, a project to fight flooding along the Des Plaines River in the Northwest suburbs around Mt. Prospect.

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