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The world's largest sewage plant takes up 40 percent of Stickney
1930
Stickney, Illinois
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The Stickney Water Reclamation Plant is the biggest wastewater treatment works on earth. Its west side opened in 1930 and a southwest side followed in 1939, and together they clean roughly 700 million gallons a day for 2.3 million people across Chicago and 46 suburbs. It covers more than 40 percent of the village and spills over the line into Cicero. The village itself is named for Alpheus Beede Stickney, a railroad executive.
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