Down Chicago’s Drain
An exploration down-stream via the Chicago & Illinois Rivers
Archives
2011.10.30:
The Fish Menace
2011.06.25:
River Pollution of the Past
2011.06.21:
Front and Center of Chicago
2011.05.17:
America's Most Endangered Rivers
2011.05.13:
Chicago River Swimmers
2010.08.20:
Recreation on the River
2010.07.28:
Plastic Across the Pacific
2010.07.13:
Send those fish back
2010.07.11:
Chicago River Wrap-Up
2010.06.27:
Re-reversal of the Chicago River
2010.06.24:
Scrappers, the Movie
2010.06.23:
A bit closer to the lake
2010.06.09:
River Gumbo's Too Thick to Navigate - 7
2010.06.08:
Into the American Jungle - 6
2010.06.07:
No Beards in Beardstown - 5
2010.06.06:
Prairie State - 4
2010.06.05:
Poison Ivy For My Bed - 3
2010.06.04:
60 Miles on the I&M Canal - 2
2010.06.03:
St. Louie or Bust - 1
2010.06.02:
Swimming in the Chicago River
2010.04.06:
Bikes by Boat / Boats by Bike
2010.03.09:
Plastiki Set to Sail
2010.03.07:
The Dirt on Recycling
2010.02.20:
Cost of Closing the Canal
2010.02.17:
Radio Journey on the Mekong
2010.02.16:
Covered in Dust
2010.02.03:
Elections Nobody Cares About
2010.01.22:
Why a Dirty River is Green
2010.01.20:
Carp's Day in Court
2010.01.17:
Dreaming of Garbage
2009.12.28:
Carp in Court
2009.12.03:
One Fish Among Thousands
2009.12.01:
River Blockade
2009.10.19:
Water Pollution
2009.05.30:
Stacy Found and Lost Again
2009.05.27:
What's That Cooking?
2009.03.27:
Don't Eat the Fish
2009.03.24:
Cairo's Trash Collectors
2009.03.20:
Stunt Dog Skis the River
2009.03.18:
Green River
2009.03.12:
Who Wants our Trash?
2009.03.10:
12,000 Bottles for 11,000 Miles
2009.03.09:
Friendly Chemicals
2009.02.27:
Steamed Fish for Everyone!
2008.12.02:
Returning Home to the Sewage Plant
2008.11.25:
End of the Cruise
2008.11.19:
Mississippi Trashboat on Stage
2008.11.12:
Carp Not Welcome Here
2008.09.11:
Scrappers on Film
2008.09.09:
Pedal vs. Paddle
2008.08.05:
A Tour of Old Stinkney
2008.08.05:
Water on the Radio
2008.07.24:
Flushed down the Mississippi
2008.06.20:
Another reason not to swim in the river
2008.05.27:
A Thousand Straws
2008.05.22:
Movable Bridges of the South Branch
2008.05.20:
Wildflowers along the Des Plaines
2008.05.18:
Streets & San in the News
2008.05.16:
Up The Yangtze - The Film
2008.05.03:
Scrappers by the River
2008.05.03:
Blue Bags Dumped
2008.04.28:
The Globalized Scrap Industry
2008.04.28:
Riverwalk
2008.04.27:
Up the Yangtze
2008.04.12:
The Birdfoot
2008.04.09:
When the Geese Return to Goose Island
2008.02.27:
Twenty percent
2008.02.25:
River Vagrants
2008.02.20:
Draining the bathtub
2008.02.16:
Surrounded by Water
2008.02.13:
End of the Mississippi
2008.01.21:
A Float Trip on the Li River - Part 2
2008.01.18:
Cormorant Fishing on the Li River
2008.01.16:
A Float Trip on the Li Jiang - Part 1
2008.01.10:
Books - Cork Boat
2008.01.09:
Sweeping up the last of the Bubbly bike pile
2008.01.03:
Flirting with other rivers - The Sumida
2008.01.02:
Books - The Illinois (Rivers of America)
2007.12.07:
Mekong River Adventures
2007.12.06:
Flirting with other rivers - The Mekong
2007.12.05:
Trashboat, the Musical
2007.11.22:
You Sunk My Battleship
2007.09.02:
Launch Photos
2007.08.30:
Our Route
2007.08.29:
Big River - Day 5
2007.08.27:
Obstacles - Day 4
2007.08.27:
Down in the Flood - Day 3
2007.08.25:
The Portage - Day 3
2007.08.24:
Combined Sewer Outflow - Day 2
2007.08.23:
Churning flatwater - Day 1
2007.08.23:
Drying out
2007.08.17:
Full speed ahead
2007.08.16:
Homemade boats on the web
2007.08.15:
Source of the Chicago River
2007.08.14:
Flying Fish
2007.08.14:
Launch Party
2007.08.14:
It Floats!
2007.08.13:
Gunwales
2007.08.13:
Adding decking
2007.08.11:
Busted
2007.08.10:
Building the Frame
2007.08.10:
Paddle Wheels
2007.08.10:
Illinois River in the News
2007.08.09:
Complications
2007.08.08:
Launch Point
2007.08.08:
Walk In The Water
2007.08.08:
To Scally Island
2007.08.08:
The Chop House
2007.08.08:
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