Following the Current: A Bioregional History of the Fox River from the Pleistocene to the Present

viii Figure 28 Fox River industry in Aurora, IL (approx. 1890s). Source: Library of Congress .............. 108 Figure 29 Hydroelectric generating Dayton Dam. Source: Friends of the Fox River ........................ 109 Figure 30 Carpentersville Dam (2020). Source: Chicago Tribune ............................................................. 109 Figure 31 Pontoon boat nearly plunges over Algonquin Dam on Fox River (2014). Source: CBS News ............................................................................................................................................................... 110 Figure 32 Danger sign at Batavia Dam (2020). Source: Chicago Tribune ................................................ 110 Figure 33 Point source pollution in the Fox River (2020). Source: Friends of the Fox River .......... 111 Figure 34 Aerial view of Ottawa, Ill., showing junction of Illinois River and Fox River, postcard (approx. 1940s) .............................................................................................................................................. 111 Figure 35 Hear Case of Dying Woman (1938). Source: Worcester Democrat & the Ledger Enterprise (Pocomoke City, MD) .................................................................................................................................. 112 Figure 36 American Rivers cleanup crew. Source: American Rivers .................................................... 113 Figure 37 Mother and daughter pair monitor water quality of the Fox River (2008). Source: Friends of the Fox River ............................................................................................................................................ 113 Figure 38 Community volunteers help to clean up pollution on the Fox River and replant native species (2006). Source: Illinois Department of Natural Resources ....................................................... 114 Figure 39 Illinois State Senator John Linebaugh, who proposed Senate Bill 1576, which would make portions of the Fox River an Illinois Scenic River Area. ........................................................................ 114 Figure 40 The Grand Victoria Casino, Elgin, IL, on the Fox River (2005). Source: WBEZ Chicago ......................................................................................................................................................................... 115 Figure 41 Elgin, Kane Co. Illinois (1880). Source: A. B. Upham. ......................................................... 115 Figure 42 Aurora, Illinois (1882). Source: Library of Congress. ............................................................ 116 Figure 43 Christopher Stone, author of Should Trees Have Standing?. Source: New York Times .... 116 Figure 44 443 E. Chicago Street in Elgin, built in 1845. Source: Historic Elgin................................. 141 Figure 45 First Elgin High School, built in 1844. Source School District U-46. ................................ 143

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