February 16th Dinner Lecture : Sport & Acculturation in Chicago
Join us, Thursday February 16th 2017, at the Gaylord building in Lockport for the 2017 Dinner Lecture: Sport & Acculturation in Chicago!
Dinner & A Little History: Passage to Chicago: Behind the Artwork
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 Publication of Passage To Chicago
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…
Happy 198th birthday Illinois!
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…
Dinner & a Little History: Wau-Bun, The Early Days – A Travellogue with Juliette Kinzie
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…
November 26th Book Signings
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…
Captain John W. Connett
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…
Dinner & a Little History: Chicago River Bridges
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,…
The Cherry Mine Disaster
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…