Prospects and Problems of the Port of Chicago

T nHE Port of Chicago is one of the major centers of water-borne commerce in North America, and it ranks high among world ports in volume of traffic. A number of recent events have focused attention upon its changing role in Great Lakes, inland, and overseas traffic. Within the Chicago metropolitan area, a number of harbors and inland waterways together constitute the Port of Chicago (Fig. 1). The port includes five harbors on the shore of Lake Michigan, two of which are within the City of Chicago and three in the near-by Calumet region of northwestern Indiana. It also includes several inland waterways: the two branches of the Chicago River, the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, the Calumet and Little Calumet rivers, Lake Calumet, and

Geography · Political science · Port (circuit theory) · Regional science · American Environmental and Regional History · Engineering · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Maritime Ports and Logistics

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