WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news: * * * 25 years and counting Over one hundred years ago in late November, hundreds of anxious families from the Chicago area waited at a dock on the Chicago River near the Clark St. bridge for a ship that would never arrive. The Rouse Simmons, owned by Capt. Herman Schuenemann, had been lost with all hands in a storm on Lake Michigan. The Rouse Simmons, also known as the Christmas Tree Ship  more