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Illinois & Michigan Canal Historical Markers
The opening of the Illinois & Michigan Canal in 1848 made Chicago and northern Illinois the key hub of mid-America. Chicago grew into a major metropolis, agricultural and industrial innovations abounded, and Illinois soon became the most populous inland American state, all attributable to the 96-mile canal that linked the Great Lakes to the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. By connecting those waterways, the canal made possible a vast all-water route that linked a growing nation. Its significance was recognized in 1984 when President Reagan, native son of Illinois, signed a bill that established the region as the first National Heritage Area.
By Sean Flynn, April 1, 2024
Pictorial History of Bridgeport & Canaryville
1 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Bridgeport — Bridgeport and the Development of Chicago's Infrastructure The Story of a Neighborhood —  |
| 2 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Bridgeport — Canal Origins Park Reported damaged |
| 3 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Canaryville — People of Canaryville Reported damaged |
| 4 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Streeterville — Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor — |
| 5 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, The Loop District — Chicago — |
| 6 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, The Loop District — Illinois and Michigan Canal — |
| 7 ► Illinois, Cook County, Forest View — The Chicago Portage Site at the Forest Preserves of Cook County — |
| 8 ► Illinois, Cook County, Hodgkins — Betz & Swink — |
| 9 ► Illinois, Cook County, Hodgkins — Santa Fe Prairie An Illinois Nature Preserve — |
| 10 ► Illinois, Cook County, Hodgkins — Santa Fe Prairie An Illinois Nature Preserve — |
| 11 ► Illinois, Cook County, Hodgkins — The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. — |
| 12 ► Illinois, Cook County, Hodgkins — Welcome to Santa Fe Prairie — |
| 13 ► Illinois, Cook County, Lemont — Old Stone Church I&M Canal Passage Waterways That Built Chicago — |
| 14 ► Illinois, Cook County, Oak Park — Continental Divide — |
| 15 ► Illinois, Cook County, Oak Park — Continental Divide — |
| 16 ► Illinois, Cook County, Oak Park — Continental Divide — |
| 17 ► Illinois, Cook County, Oak Park — Continental Divide — |
| 18 ► Illinois, Cook County, Oak Park — Continental Divide — |
| 19 ► Illinois, Cook County, Willow Springs — Old Towpath — |
| 20 ► Illinois, Cook County, Willow Springs — Original Illinois & Michigan Canal Forest Preserve — |
| 21 ► Illinois, Cook County, Willow Springs — Willow Springs Civilian Conservation Corps Camp #612 — |
| 22 ► Illinois, DuPage County, Oak Brook — The Indian Boundary Line — |
| 23 ► Illinois, Lake County, Gurnee — Underground Railroad in Illinois — |
| 24 ► Illinois, LaSalle County, Ottawa — Jim Gray's Escape to Freedom — |
| 25 ► Illinois, LaSalle County, Ottawa — Lincoln the Litigator Looking for Lincoln — |
| 26 ► Illinois, Morgan County, Jacksonville — Lincoln & Governor Duncan Looking for Lincoln — |
| 27 ► Illinois, Will County, Joliet — George Kiser, Iron Works laborer I&M Canal Passage — |
| 28 ► Illinois, Will County, Joliet — James McKee's Mill and Dam — |
| 29 ► Illinois, Will County, Joliet — Joliet Limestone: Our Canals and Quarries — |
| 30 ► Illinois, Will County, Joliet — The Marx Brothers Joliet Bicycle Route I&M Canal Passage — |
| 31 ► Illinois, Will County, Lockport — Illinois & Michigan Canal Office — |
| 32 ► Illinois, Will County, Lockport — Lock 1 — |
| 33 ► Illinois, Will County, Lockport — The Hydraulic Basin — |
| 34 ► Illinois, Will County, Lockport — The Norton Building — |
| 35 ► Illinois, Will County, Romeoville — Romeoville, Illinois Welcome to Route 66 Illinois — |