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By Jamie Nesbitt
In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair described this arm of the Chicago River as a “great open sewer … where the filth lasts forever and a day.” Serving as a grim backdrop for the lives of a lower-class Russian immigrant
family in the early 1900s, Bubbly Creek, as it is known, served as a catchall
for waste and dead livestock discarded from the infamous stockyards of Chicago.
But today, this murky stretch of river is home to a different breed of urbanite.
Muck and weathered cobblestone have given way to paved roads and cul-de-sacs.
Warehouses once filled with animal carcasses have been replaced with
million-dollar homes. An improbable idea has turned into a blossoming
community.
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