• American Discovery Trail 250 Relay

    Lock 16 Visitor Center 754 First Street, LaSalle, IL, United States

    As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, the American Discovery Trail Society is organizing an extraordinary coast-to-coast relay carrying a copy of the Declaration of Independence from California to Delaware. Beginning July 4 and concluding on Thanksgiving, baton carriers will travel by foot and bicycle across

  • Exhibit: History of the I & M Canal

    Lock 16 Visitor Center 754 First Street, LaSalle, IL, United States

    The History of the I&M Canal is a new 18-panel exhibit now on display in the historic Vintage Room at the I&M Canal Visitor Center.  It features original illustrations by Tom Willcockson, acclaimed artist and author of Passage to Chicago: A Journey on the Illinois & Michigan