Thursday, November 15, 2007

The Centennial Plaza and Fountain









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The Centennial Plaza and Fountain ...
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Great Chicago ...

Every hour on the hour, from 10:00 to 14:00 and again from 17:00 to midnight, the esplanade's Centennial Fountain shoots a massive arc of water across the river for 10 minutes. The entire exercise is meant to commemorate the labor-intensive reversal of the Chicago River in 1900, which tidily began sending all of the city's wastes downriver rather than into the lake.

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