Restoring neglected waterways of the Southeast Side are major challenge. For 70 years, from 1900 to 1970, the Calumet River on Chicago’s Southeast Side provided the cooling water, waste disposal, and shipping channel for a dense collection of steel, chemical, and metals manufacturing plants matched in few other regions of the country. When the last […]
Author Archives: Christiana Freitag
Christiana reports on Great Lakes issues for Circle of Blue. She's a current graduate student at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, specializing in health, environment and science reporting, with a concentration in data journalism.
