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In 1900, Chicago engineers reversed the flow of an entire river to push the city's sewage away from Lake Michigan and down toward the Mississippi — St. Louis raced to the Supreme Court to stop it and lost, and the Chicago River still runs backward 126 years later

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (408+ words) A city's desperate bid to escape its own waste became an engineering marvel that still defies the laws of nature—and the fury of its downstream neighbors. Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit Chicago’s founding problem was plumbing. The city drew…...