| | Canoe trip reveals two sides to the Fox River |
 | | But without steady work, his money eventually ran out and Roberts returned stateside, settling in as a systems analyst for a large Illinois utility, and eventually moving to Yorkville so he could continue to hone his fly casting skills on the Fox River. |
| | With degradation of the Fox River watershed through the impacts of urbanization, the last two miles of our canoe trip saw the river change from a shallow, free-flowing pristine body of water to a slow running pool, which gave off a pungent odor and was full of algae and trash which covered shoreline rocks. |
| | Besides the obvious signs from the pungent odor of the river, the algae blooms, trash and iridescent colored rocks along the river banks, I was perplexed by the thought that people were paying inflated dollars to own homes along a stretch of the river which was dying a slow death. |
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