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CHICAGO:
Father Jacques Marquette,
French-born missionary of the Jesuit order, and Louis
Jolliet, Canadian explorer and mapmaker, were the
first Europeans to view the land on which the City
of Chicago was to stand. Returning
with five other Europeans from exploration of the
Mississippi River, Marquette and Jolliet struck out
alone and found a large Indian village near the present
city of Ottawa. Guided by friendly Indians in the
Fall of 1673, the two men first traversed the region
that is now Chicago.
Chicago was under the jurisdiction
of Indiana Territory and Illinois Territory from 1801
to 1818. In 1818, Illinois was admitted to statehood,
and Chicago was placed successively
under the counties of Crawford, Clark, Pike, Fulton,
Putnam attached to Peoria, and in 1831, Cook County.
Early Chicagoans had Lake Michigan
water delivered to them by private water cart. In
1840, when Chicago's population had
increased to 4,500, the Chicago Hydraulic
Company, a private organization, built the first pumping
station and reservoir at the corner of Lake Street
and Michigan Avenue and drew water from 150 feet out
into the lake. Twelve years later a three-man board
of water commissioners was created and the city took
over the water service.
Chicago's first water tunnel was
completed in 1867. It was two miles long and was dug
through clay 60 feet under lake level and was lined
to a finished diameter of five feet with two shells
of brick. An intake crib built of timber (the original
two-mile crib) was located two miles off shore at
the lake end of the tunnel, and the shore end was
connected to a new pumping station completed in 1869.
This station is the existing Chicago Avenue pumping station.
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