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Description   This book is an innovative collaboration and carries readers down the 330-mile Illinois waterway, from the urban landscape of Chicago to the states most rural areas.  Combining literary impressions, history and a personal narrative with stunning color photographs, this remarkable book transports readers to places most have never been:  three hundred feet below the city of Chicago in a TARP pump station, above the Illinois River in a lift-bridge operators hut, in the wheelhouse of a towboat pushing twenty thousand tons.  The story of the river is told by the people who live along the waterways banks and work its course, who rely on it for their livelihoods, their recreation and their spiritual sustenance.  More than 100 original color photographs and dozens of conversations with waterway workers, residents and visitors capture the essence of the waterway.

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