The I&M Canal was the final link in a national plan to connect different regions of the vast North American continent via waterways. Linking the waters of the Illinois River (and ultimately the Mississippi River) with those of Lake Michigan,…
Join us on Saturday May 5th 2018, 10:00am – 3:30pm for the Discovery of Chicago Bus Tour! Enhance your knowledge of Chicago, and the I&M Canal’s, origins on the “Discovery of Chicago” bus tour. Join us for a historic tour…
The Canal Corridor Association is hosting its 23rd Annual Boat Captain’s Luncheon benefit on Friday April 13th 2018 11:30am – 1:30pm at the Union League Club in Chicago. This years Boat Captain’s Luncheon we will be honoring Mayor Richard Kopczick of Morris,…
Join us on Sunday April 15th, 1:00pm -2:30pm for our Sunday Lecture Series: “Illinois Memoirs: Our Story, Your Opportunity” with speaker John Hallwas at the Lock 16 Cafe & Visitor Center in LaSalle. Illinois’s monumental literary heritage is particularly rich…
The Canal Corridor Association invites you to: The 6th Annual Canal Alliance Congress Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 8:30am-4:30pm at the Four Rivers Environmental Education Center: 25055 South Walnut Lane Channahon, IL 60410 The annual Canal Alliance Congress is a gathering of local I&M…
Join us, Sunday January 21st 2018 1:00pm – 2:30pm, at the LaSalle County Historical Museum for our Sunday lecture series: Uniting the Rivers: The History of the Illinois Waterway The Illinois Waterway, once the skeletal remains of a glacial drainage…
Join the us on Saturday December 16th 1:00pm – 3:00pm for a book signing with local author Carole Ledbetter and her book Carole’s Column’s at the Lock 16 Café & Visitor Center, 754 First Street LaSalle, IL. In her recently…
Join us Thursday, November 30th 2017 at the Lock 16 Cafe for our Dinner Lecture: Trail Markers: Past & Present. Indigenous peoples, including Native Americans, have always been consummate travelers, whose trade and social networks crossed the continent. Few are…
Join us Thursday, October 5th 2017 at the Lock 16 Cafe for our Dinner Lecture: Coal, Shale, and Ironstone: The Geology & Paleontology of Mazon Creek. Located in northeastern Illinois, Mazon Creek, is an incredible fossil array of associated Upper Carboniferous…
Unfortunately we have some bad news regarding one of our I&M Canal Boat mules, Joe. Joe has been diagnosed with EPM, a neurological disease that causes inflammation and spinal cord damage. There is a treatment available and while it will…
