• 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

  • Christmas Afternoon Tea

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

    There is still time to sign-up for Lock 16's Christmas Teas!   Join us on December 7th OR 8th to spend the afternoon with friends, or make new ones, in our charming Vintage Room sipping a variety of tasty teas and sample delectable tea sandwiches, scones, sweet

    $24.95
  • Christmas Afternoon Tea

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

    There is still time to sign-up for Lock 16's Christmas Teas!   Join us on December 7th OR December 8th to spend the afternoon with friends, or make new ones, in our charming Vintage Room sipping a variety of tasty teas and sample delectable tea sandwiches, scones,

    $24.95
  • 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

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    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

    $8.00