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 ...

In the 1850s and 1860s, Kilgubbin was often mentioned in the pages of the Tribune and other Chicago newspapers. The name became symbolic of slums where poor Irish immigrants lived in ramshackle ...

In this capacity, he oversees a marketing program for the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor area, the first hundred miles of Route 66 in Illinois and the Starved Rock Country ...

Heritage Corridor Line (no change): No renaming is needed for this line, as its name already honors its proximity to the historic Illinois & Michigan Canal Heritage Corridor. Many towns along this ...

In 1850, an estimated one-third of Irish were engaged in agriculture in Illinois, despite their recent failures back home. Water flows through the Illinois & Michigan Canal on June 27, 2023, in ...

And white-haired old hippies in ponytails wearing tie dye in the hippie netherworld that is Woodstock today. Yep, we were on a trip through the Midwest to get my kid back to college.

That experience led him to press for the establishment of the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor (now National Heritage Area), where he served as its inaugural chairman from 1985 ...

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Rauch recommended increasing the city pumping capacity necessary to push the wastewater westward into the Illinois and Michigan Canal and Des Plaines River. Keep in mind that this was before the river ...

Fort Dearborn was eventually constructed by the U.S. government in 1803. Just over a decade after the city’s incorporation, the Illinois and Michigan Canal opened a link between the Mississippi River ...

The city of Chicago was incorporated in 1837, and the Illinois & Michigan Canal linking the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River was completed in 1848. The infamous Great Fire of 1871 razed most of ...