Dinner & a Little History: Coal, Shale, and Ironstone: The Geology & Paleontology of Mazon Creek

Lock 16 Visitor Center 754 First Street, LaSalle, IL, United States

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 plants and animals. Considered to be among

Book Signing with Author Carole Ledbetter!

Lock 16 Visitor Center 754 First Street, LaSalle, IL, United States

    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 published book, Carole’s Columns, Carole

Book Signing with Author Steven Decker

Lock 16 Visitor Center 754 First Street, LaSalle, IL, United States

  Join the Canal Corridor Association on Saturday December 23rd 11:00am – 1:00pm for a book signing with author Steven Decker and his book Cambridge Street at the Lock 16 Café & Visitor Center, 754 First Street LaSalle, IL. “Cambridge Street is for the millions of immigrants

Sunday Lecture: Uniting the Rivers: The History of the Illinois Waterway

Home section services

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 ditch, has been transformed into an engineering

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Book Signing with Author Jeanne Roppolo

Lock 16 Visitor Center 754 First Street, LaSalle, IL, United States

Join us on Saturday February 24th 2018, 12:00pm - 2:00pm for a book signing with local author Jeanne Roppolo.   Jeanne will be signing and reading from her newly published book Grandma Goes to New Zealand & Australia: Walkabouts in the Lands Down Under. In here newly

Will County History Seminars

175thAnniversary

Join presenters from the Will County Historical Museum at Joliet Junior College for a series of six seminars on early Will County history. Each night will cover a different topic and time will be allotted for audience participation. Topics that will be covered are: -History of Will

Dinner & a Little History: World War II on the Great Lakes

Gaylord Building, Lockport 200 W. 8th Street, Lockport, IL, United States

Join us, Wednesday November 14th 2018, 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 but the factories, training camps, and shipyards of the region

Passage to Chicago Book Signing

Lock 16 Visitor Center 754 First Street, LaSalle, IL, United States

Come join us on Saturday November 17th 2018, 12:00pm - 2:00pm at the Lock 16 Cafe & Visitor Center for a book signing with author & illustrator Tom Willcockson for his award winning book Passage to Chicago: A Journey on the Illinois & Michigan Canal in the