Join the Ottawa Historical Museum, Canal Toll House and the Reddick and take a step back in time to enjoy a day of coopering, browsing the work of artists and crafters, RC boat racing, kayak racing and so much more. On July 8, Louis Jolliet, Fr. Jacques
On July 8, Louis Jolliet, Fr. Jacques Marquette and fellow “voyageurs” will be at the I&M Canal. They will paddle their voyager canoes, tell of their travels, sing their native songs and demonstrate how they survive in the Illinois territory environment. Come and talk to them and
A murder on the I&M and other personal canal memories by Ottawa's Hank Walsh.
On June 12, 1924 around 9:00 p.m. two bandits climbed over the engine tender of R.P.O. train 57, 30 miles outside Chicago. The two men covered the engineer and firemen at gun forcing them to stop the train near Rondout, Illinois. Four other bandits were a Rondout,
