SWIFT, now one of the Trustees of the said Illinois and Michigan Canal, together with a skillful and experienced engineer in the topographical corps of the United States Army, to be designated by ...

The Illinois and Michigan Canal, a major trade route that connected Lake Michigan to the Illinois River, celebrates its 175th anniversary Monday. The canal that runs through the south suburbs ...

The Illinois and Michigan Canal: A Study in Economic History. By Prof. J. W. Putnam. (Chicago Historical Society's Collection, vol. x.) Pp. xiii + 213. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press ...

Indiana and Illinois residents will be able to explore all three states through a nonmotorized bike path along the south shore of Lake Michigan — the Marquette Greenway Trail. The new trail ...

From Illinois ... Michigan, bikers and pedestrians will soon be able to travel across state lines on a scenic, nonmotorized greenway along the south shore of Lake Michigan. The Marquette Greenway ...

and follows the historic Hennepin Canal State Trail. Known as 'flat and fast' this trail encompasses all types of terrain as it follows Illinois' longest multi-use trail. Runners will travel ...

Editor's note: News 8 had previously said The Hennepin Hundred is Illinois' only all-trail ... stretching the entire Hennepin Canal State Trail before ending across the street from the Colona ...

A canal of small dimension and capacity had already been constructed from Lake Michigan Lo the head of navigation on the Illinois River. But this work cannot accommodate a fiftieth part of the ...