Counsel's Table

There has been a lot of talk about the Chicago River lately, and why not? It's a pretty cool river. When Chicago was just growing up it flowed into the lake, leaving all sorts of trash (you don't need the details; this is a food column) in the drinking water of our great city. So we just reversed the flow of it. What kind of people, over 100 years ago no less, simply reverse the flow of a river? The same kind of people …