The Growth of Wilmette: Lake Chicago's Changes That Developed the Wilmette Area
Description
- Creator
- Henderson, Charles Clinton, Cartographer
- Media Type
- Text
- Image
- Item Type
- Maps
- Notes
- How "Lake Chicago" was filled in to form the shore line of Lake MIchigan. Shows the several stages wherein, due to the prevailing North East South West lake current, the spoil from the wave action on the North Shore Bluffs was gradually deposited to the South, making Chicago's land.
- Place of Publication
- Wilmette, Illinois
- Date of Original
- September 1949
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- Maps 1.3
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Illinois, United States
Latitude: 42.07225 Longitude: -87.72284
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Wilmette Public LibraryEmail:refdesk@wilmettelibrary.info
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