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- Illinois_Waterway abstract "The Illinois Waterway system consists of 336 miles (541 km) of water from the mouth of the Calumet River to the mouth of the Illinois River at Grafton, Illinois. It is a system of rivers, lakes, and canals which provide a shipping connection from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi River. The Illinois and Michigan Canal opened in 1849. In 1900, the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal replaced it and reversed the flow of the Chicago River so it no longer flowed into Lake Michigan. The United States Army Corps of Engineers maintains a 9-foot-deep (2.7 m) navigation channel in the waterway.A series of eight locks, managed by the Army Corps of Engineers, control water flow from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River system. The upper lock, T.J. O'Brien, is 7 miles from Lake Michigan on the Calumet River and the last lock is 90 miles (140 km) upstream from the Mississippi River at the LaGrange lock and dam. The amount of water released into the Illinois often is a sore point among Lake and river interests. When Lake Michigan water levels are high, Lake interests want to increase the flow and when lake levels are low they want to restrict the flow. That is why an international treaty regulates the flow, as Canada also has an interest in Lake Michigan levels which eventually flow into the Lakes Erie, Huron, and Ontario.Primary cargoes are coal to powerplants, chemicals and petroleum upstream and corn and soybeans downstream primarily for export through New Orleans.Some winters ice floes, especially around the locks and dams, preclude towboats and barges from navigating the Illinois.".
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- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Beardstown,_Illinois.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Brandon_Road_Lock_and_Dam_Historic_District.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Calumet_River.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Category:Historic_American_Engineering_Record_in_Illinois.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Category:Illinois_waterways.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Chicago.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Chicago_Area_Waterway_System.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Chicago_River.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Chicago_Sanitary_and_Ship_Canal.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Dresden_Island_Lock_and_Dam.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink File:Illinois_Waterway_schematic.svg.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Grafton,_Illinois.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Great_Lakes.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Gulf_of_Mexico.
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- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Illinois_and_Michigan_Canal.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Joliet,_Illinois.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink La_Grange_Lock_and_Dam.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Erie.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Huron.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Michigan.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Ontario.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Lock_(water_navigation).
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Lockport,_Illinois.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Lockport_Powerhouse.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Marseilles,_Illinois.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Marseilles_Lock_and_Dam.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Mississippi_River.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Morris,_Illinois.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink New_Orleans.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink North_Utica,_Illinois.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Peoria,_Illinois.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink Peoria_Lock_and_Dam.
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- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink T.J._OBrien_Lock_and_Dam.
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Army_Corps_of_Engineers.
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- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLinkText "Illinois Waterway Lock and dams".
- Illinois_Waterway wikiPageWikiLinkText "Illinois Waterway".
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- Illinois_Waterway survey "IL-164".
- Illinois_Waterway title "Illinois Waterway".
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- Illinois_Waterway subject Category:Historic_American_Engineering_Record_in_Illinois.
- Illinois_Waterway subject Category:Illinois_waterways.
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- Illinois_Waterway comment "The Illinois Waterway system consists of 336 miles (541 km) of water from the mouth of the Calumet River to the mouth of the Illinois River at Grafton, Illinois. It is a system of rivers, lakes, and canals which provide a shipping connection from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi River. The Illinois and Michigan Canal opened in 1849.".
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- Illinois_Waterway isPrimaryTopicOf Illinois_Waterway.