What would Chicago do without Lake Michigan? Through period photos, author Ben Stills will share the ingenuity of Ellis Chesbrough who, in the 1860s, devised a precise engineering strategy for digging a two-mile tunnel below Lake Michigan in search of clean water. Part of our Chicagoland: Read All About It series.
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The Schaumburg Township District Library serves in excess of 134,000 residents in portions of the municipalities Elk Grove Village, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg and Streamwood. With over 1 million visitors each year, the library circulates over 2,000,000 items annually and is the second largest public library in the state of Illinois.