The demolition company sent a small crew to the North Branch Canal Wednesday afternoon ... The former Chicago Tribune Freedom Center building in River West is demolished Monday, Dec.

May-September: Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet's exploration of the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan takes them by the future site of Chicago. Joliet reports that a canal connecting Lake ...

Within a couple of hours, she said, a wall collapsed, sinking the netting into the Chicago River while debris and a sizable amount of white substance dumped into the water. “My daughter looked ...