Talk:Chicago Portage

La Salle Quote
The La Salle quote - "This will be the gate of empire, this the seat of commerce." - appears to have been a joke that has been erroneously misprinted for a century now. The Dial provides clarity. I don’t think a discussion of the validity of the quote is applicable to the article, but I feel the wording around it should be changed. Not sure how. Skinrider (talk) 13:07, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Location?
This seems to say that the Des Plaines and Chicago are connected 'near where the Des Plaines joins the Illinois', which seems impossible. I don't want to make any changes since I don't have local information. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 00:34, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

The Des Plaines River and Chicago Sanitary Canal join up on the north side of Lockport, Illinois, according to Google Maps. The river officially becomes the Illinois River about 20 miles further downstream. ~E$ (talk) 18:20, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Discovered?
Did the people that created this article do any research? Discovered by Europeans? No, they were GUIDED there by native American Indians. It was discovered an estimated 2,000 years ago. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.94.122.6 (talk) 22:22, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Merge Chicago Portage National Historic Site here?
Would it make sense to merge Chicago Portage National Historic Site into this article? They are essentially about the same thing, and contain much duplicated information.RogerD (talk) 05:14, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Chicago Library Flag info moved
The URL referenced in reference number 3 has been replaced. The Chicago Public Library page giving the relevant information is now at http://www.chipublib.org/chicago-facts/. ~E$ (talk) 18:22, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

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This is such a badly written article
That would benefit from some heavy editing by someone able to explain concepts in clear, plain English. MapReader (talk) 21:48, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

I have revised this article to reduce the discussion of the portage itself and focus more on the people who used it and its importance to early commerce. The link to the draft is here: (link deleted) Let me hear what you think. Joe Bfsplk (talk) 17:50, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

The revised version has seen about 60 pageviews since 11/10. Only one suggested edit so far, so I am going to go ahead and start revising this article. Joe Bfsplk (talk) 18:01, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

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