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The project for a navigable waterway from Lake Michigan to the mouth of the Illinois River, and thence via the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico, is one of national importance.
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Taft identifies the navigable waterway project from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico as nationally significant.
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