Camera: Pentax Spotmatic F, f3.5 28mm S-M-C Takumar lens. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL.
The Chicago River is definitely an urban river. The canal runs through a channel a storey below the parking garages and decked roadways on either side, with no discernible natural habitat. In 1900, the direction of the river was reversed to flow from Lake Ontario to the Mississipi River, to finally beat those typhoid epidemics. It sounds like a pretty miserable thing, but at least in the downtown area, the banks have been transformed into a pleasant pathway that offers a bit of refuge from the city above, where one can sit and contemplate some beautiful architecture for a moment.
