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Welcome to Your Daily Dot where Dot will share tips, advice, and stories on how we can make our world better.
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All Dear Dot illustrations by Elissa Turnbull.
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Dear Reader,
It’s Feel-Good Friday, and Dot is here to tell you that Chonkasaurus’ appearance in the Chicago River a couple of years ago was viewed as a positive sign that the notoriously dirty river was getting cleaner. (Chonkasaurus is a massive snapping turtle that dwarfs his fellow snappers.)Â
Turns out that Chonk knew what was up. The river was cleaner, thanks to the cleanup crew and the hard work of Friends of the Chicago River, who’ve been toiling since 1979 to address the filth from more than a century of dumping industrial waste and untreated sewage.Â
In fact, in late September, the water was clean enough that swimmers got the green light to dive into the chilly waters for the first time in a hundred years. Brrrr! … but also, hurray!
Hungry for more Feel-Good stories about people cleaning up our world? Then check out these stories about how a tax cleaned the water for manatees in Florida, the volunteers that tend to fragile (and lovely) Mitlenatch Island, and the guy who convinced
Portlanders to join him in making the Willamette swimmable again.Â
Splashingly,
Dot
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