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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20001015
Author:GARY WISBY

This was Bubbly Creek in 1906, in the view of novelist Upton Sinclair:

"A great open sewer a hundred or two feet wide . . . constantly in motion, as if huge fish were feeding in it, or great leviathans were disporting themselves in its depths."

And this is what it could be in five years, in the view of wetlands expert Donald Hey:

"A stream with arrowhead and pickerel weed on the edges and water lilies two feet out (from the banks). It should look like a Monet."

Bubbly Creek-the informal name for the south fork of the south branch of the Chicago River-is vastly less polluted than when the ...

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