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 ...

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 ...