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…
In August 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing the Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Area, America’s first National Heritage Area. This “new kind of national park” was the first explicit marriage of preservation, conservation, recreation, and economic…
Join us Saturday August 26th OR Sunday August 27th for the Mazon Creek Fossil Tour! Take advantage of this opportunity to learn about the environment, ecosystems, and climate of Northern Illinois as it was 300 million years ago by collecting…
Join us, Thursday April 27th 2017, at the Lock 16 Cafe in LaSalle for the Illinois Memoirs Dinner Lecture! Illinois monumental literary heritage is particularly rich in autobiographies and memoirs, including the first noted autobiography from the Midwest (Chief Black Hawk’s), the…
Join us, Thursday February 16th 2017, at the Gaylord building in Lockport for the 2017 Dinner Lecture: Sport & Acculturation in Chicago!
