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Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook County, IL

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Significance: The station supplied a large portion of Chicago's water needs throughout the first half of the 20th century. Equipment at the site included 3 Nordberg pumping engines and a Bethlehem Steel Co. pumping engine, all with a capacity of 25 million gallons per day.

Survey number: HAER IL-4

Building/structure dates: 1915 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1979 Demolished

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1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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waterworks brick buildings octagonal buildings water supply civil engineering hydraulic engineering public utilities public works municipal government demolition process people associated with manual labor pumping stations chicago lakeview clarendon montrose montrose avenues cook county illinois historic american engineering record photo ultra high resolution high resolution biblical events bethlehem industrial history library of congress