Help preserve and protect what is important to you. Support the Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Area Today! Dear Visitor, The Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Area (IMCNHA) connects with people on many levels. A canal…
Support the Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Area Today! Why is the Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Area (IMCNHA) important to you? Is it because it defines our local history, tells our national American story? Is it that…
Teaching kids history is so important! History connects children to their communities, and provides models for good and responsible citizenship. Support the Canal Corridor Association this #Giving Tuesday and help send students on educational field trips to the I&M Canal…
Join us, Wednesday November 14th 2018, 6:00pm – 8:00pm at the Gaylord Building for our Dinner Lecture Series: World War II on the Great Lakes! The Great Lakes of North America were far from the battlefields of World War II…
Join us in October for a Halloween adventure filled with legend, mystery and horror! Join us for a night of storytelling on the I&M Canal! Let our talented tour guides divulge the many secrets, spirits, scandals that took…
Ride the I&M Canal Boat on Saturday October 6th to celebrate the day that Abraham Lincoln & his family were on LaSalle-Peru! Climb aboard a replica 19th Century canal boat and step back in time to 1848. Mary Todd…
Join us for dinner & a little history on Thursday September 20th 2018, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, at the Gaylord Building for our Dinner Lecture Series: Highways Through Time! The story of this region is best understood not as the impact…
Visit the Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Area & take a journey back in time aboard the “Volunteer,” a mule-pulled 1840’s replica canal boat, as it coasts gently up and down the Illinois & Michigan Canal. Every trip begins…
That Illinois is now the most populous inland American state, and Chicago the greatest city of the American heartland, is directly traceable to the 96 – mile canal that linked the Great Lakes to the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. The…
I&M Canal Boat Tours will resume on Thursday August 16th 2018. Due to low water levels on the I&M Canal, boat tours are currently cancelled. We will resume boat tours on Thursday August 16th 2018 at 10:00am. Select “Book…
