Notes to text
1.		Bretz, J. Harlen. Geology of the Chicago Region.
2.		Interview with Frank Lipo, The Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest.
3.		Map of the Great Lakes Drainage Basin, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
4.		Knight and Zeuch, The Location of the Chicago Portage.  Page 198.
5.		Donnelly, Joseph P, Jacques Marquette. Page 229.
6.		Balesi, Charles, The Time of the French in North America. Page 20.
7.		The Story of the Metropolitan Sanitary District. See chronology.
8.		Knight and Zeuch, The Location of the Chicago Portage. Page 4.
9.		Ibid. Page 4.
10.		Ibid. Page 7.
11.		Balesi, Charles, The Time of the French in North America. Page 67.
12.		Knight and Zeuch, The Location of the Chicago Portage.
13.		U.S. House Reports 23rd Congress 1833-34.
14.		Vogel, Virgel, Indian Place Names in Illinois.
15.		Interview with Herman Bender.
16.		Knight and Zeuch, The Location of the Chicago Portage.  Page 1.
17.		Ibid. Page 2.
18.		Mc Meese, Tim. America’s Early Canals. Page 19.
19.		Ibid.
20.		Balesi, Charles, The Time of the French in North America.
21.		Ibid.
22.		Knight and Zeuch, The Location of the Chicago Portage. Page 7.
23.		Ibid. Page 13.
24.		Ibid. Page 14.
25.		Ibid. Page 4.
26.		Ibid. Page 15.
27.		Clemensen, A. Berle, Illinois and Michigan Canal, National Heritage Corridor. Page 3.
28.		Map references, confirmed by interview with John Gates.
29.		Cooley, Lyman, The Diversion of the Great Lakes. Page 104.
30.		U.S. House Reports 23rd Congress 1833-34.
31.		Ibid.
32.		Ibid.
33.		McMeese, Tim, America’s Early Canals. Page 135.
34.		Ibid. Page 135.
35.		Cooley, Lyman, The Diversion of the Great Lakes. Page 1.
36.		Clemensen, A. Berle, Illinois and Michigan Canal, National Heritage Corridor. Page 3.
37.		Ibid.
38.		Harris, Emily, Prairie Passage. Page 40.
39.		Ibid. Page 47.
40.		McMeese, Tim, America’s Early Canals.
41.		The Story of the Metropolitan Sanitary District. See Chronology.
42.		Ibid.
43.		Ibid.
44.		Clemensen, A. Berle, Illinois and Michigan Canal, National Heritage Corridor. Page 7.
45.		Ibid.
46.		Cooley, Lyman, The Diversion of the Great Lakes. Page v.
47.		The Story of the Metropolitan Sanitary District. See Chronology.
48.		Ibid.
49.		Joliet Daily Republican, January 27, 1900.
50.		Clemensen, A. Berle, Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor. Page 17.
51.		Bretz, J. Harlen. Geology of the Chicago Region.
52.		The Scientific American, June 20, 1903. Editorial.
53.		Eisenhower, Dwight D. (President, U.S.). Veto Message H. R. 3300, September 3, 1954, The Congressional Record—House, and Veto Message H. R. 3210, August 9, 1956, The Congressional Record--House.
54.		Cooley, Lyman, The Diversion of the Great Lakes. Page 40.