Join us, Friday January 20th 2017, at the Gaylord building for our Dinner lecture series: Passage to Chicago: Behind the Artwork! Passage to Chicago: A Journey on the Illinois & Michigan Canal in the Year 1860 takes the reader on a…
The Canal Corridor Association is happy to announce the Publication of Passage to Chicago: A Journey on the Illinois & Michigan Canal in the Year 1860 by illustrator and historian Tom Willcockson. Passage to Chicago takes the reader on a…
198 Years of Being a State! Today, December 3, 1818, Illinois, with a population of 34,620 residents, became the 21st state in the Union. During this time the capital of Illinois was Kaskaskia, and Shadrach Bond served as the states first…
Join us Thursday, December 1st, 6:00pm-8:30pm, at the Gaylord Building in Lockport for our last dinner lecture of the year! In the early 19th century French voyageurs, fur trappers, British soldiers, American pioneers and above all Indians peopled the wilderness…
Come join us, Saturday November 26th at 11am-2pm, at the Lock 16 Cafe & Visitor Center for a book signing event with two local authors! Passage to Chicago: A Journey on the Illinois & Michigan Canal in the Year 1860…
On November 15th 1852, on one of his last trips on the I&M Canal, Captain John Connett and his boat, the Prairie Queen, struck ice and sunk in the canal. Which is one of the reasons why the LaSalle Canal boat…
Join us, Thursday November 17th in Lockport, for dinner while Patrick McBriarty unfolds the untold history and development of Chicago’s iconic bridges, from the first wood footbridge built by a tavern owner in 1832 to the fantastic marvels of steel,…
On this day, 107 years ago, 500 men and boys went down to work in a coal mine near the western terminus of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Around lunch,15 year old Matt Francesco pushed a coal car loaded…
Today, in 1859, John Hossack rescued Jim Gray, an escaped slave who had been captured in Illinois. During the court appearance, Hossack grabbed Jim Gray, and ushered him into a waiting carriage, while a crowd surrounded the marshal, preventing his…
Come join us for dinner, on Thursday October 20th 5:30-8:00pm in Lockport, as Speaker Charles Balesi talks about the impact that French Canals had on the creation of the U.S. Canals. Balesi will talk about how Louis XIV launched several canal…
