Splat! Downstate river silt arrives in Chicago
CHICAGO - Truckloads of gray sediment from the Illinois River landed with a series of splats Friday as dignitaries once again welcomed the raw material that will provide topsoil for a future lakefront park in Chicago.
It was the latest shipment of silt from Peoria Lakes, under an experimental state program that dredges the obstructionist mud and transports it by barge to soil-starved areas.
The highest-profile use of the substance has been at the former U.S. Steel South Works site at 87<sup>th</sup> Street and Lake Michigan, a giant slag field that is earmarked for mixed-used redevelopment and greenspace.