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Video: Vacancy sign always on at fish hotel

Emily Gadek

11-Jun-11 – (Above) A worker tends to the “fish hotel,” a habitat on the south side of the Chicago River across from Marina City. Northwestern journalism student Emily Gadek filed a report last week on the hotel, now in its seventh summer.

“In the 1970s, there were ten species of fish in the Chicago River,” says Dana Murphy of Friends of the Chicago River, “now, there’s close to 70.”

The hotel opened in 2005. In 2008, it was moved to the Dearborn Street Bridge. It will be open this year through October.

 Video: A different kind of hotel