"The canal, whose initial official name was the 'Illinois and Mississippi Canal,' was the western link in a water route from the Upper Mississippi River to the Atlantic Seaboard." According to Jeff ...
Irish immigrants worked on the construction of the canal connecting Chicago with the Illinois River. The nearby neighborhood they settled, called Canalport, was later known as Bridgeport and was ...
Shrewsbury fire chief said the man, who lives in Brentwood and had been missing since Tuesday morning, is believed to have ...
all while planning the construction and execution of the world's largest lock canal to date. Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, John Wallace studied at Monmouth College in Western Illinois before ...
Voices of the Hennepin Canal: Promoters, Politicians, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is a 428-page historical account that begins in the 1830s with the start of surveys of canal-river routes to ...
The Panama Canal Authority is reaching out to communities that could be impacted if the Indio River is dammed to make a new reservoir ensuring the water supply needed to operate the Panama Canal.
Voters in Madison County and other places around Illinois will be asked whether a new state should be formed out of downstate ...
I don’t know about you, but when I spend time in nature, I prefer it to be meditative. I don’t mind greeting the occasional ...
Now a pontoon is set to be installed on the river, meaning the boat will be able to run completely off sunlight. The Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust, which operates the boat, said the pontoon will ...
It's a race that's truly unlike any other in Illinois ... on the Rock River, to Colona, near the mighty Mississippi, and ...
Northern Illinois was once part of “Illinois Country ... came by way of New Englanders taking the recently completed Erie ...
The River Arno floods, causing massive damage in Florence. 1429: Joan of Arc and Charles d’Albret liberate the heavily ...