Draining Chicago: The Early City and the North Area Posted by Ravenswood Historical Society Webmaster on December 27, 2016 Posted in: Past Programs. Tagged: Chicago, Chicago River, Conrad Sulzer Regional Library, history, Lake Michigan, Reversing the Chicago River, Richard Lanyon. Related posts: Chicago Transformed: World War One and the Windy City History of the Irish in Chicago Chicago’s Fabulous Fountains Germans in Chicago Posts navigation ← The Wartime Chicago Cubs and The Pennant of 1945 Chicago Transformed: World War One and the Windy City →