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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
