"Voices of the Hennepin Canal" — the latest book in the New Western Illinois Monograph Series and published by the University Libraries and WIU College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) — encompasses the ...

Groundbreaking on the Main Line commenced the same day at Cairo, ultimately aimed for the terminus of the Illinois-Michigan Canal at LaSalle-Peru. As the track approached Champaign County ...

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 Lake Michigan and the East, the post war period of ...

ALTON - On October 18, 1924, 67,000 people, including 500 Altonians, attended the Illinois-Michigan football game in Urbana.

ABOVE: An 1870 ad for the Illinois Central Railway touted a trip from Chicago to Cairo — ‘without change of Cars.’ BELOW: That railroad arose out of a pair of land-grant bills introduced two ...

Oct. 15—The full-sized replica of the Erie Canal boat "Seneca Chief" is wintering in Lockport's Flight of Five Locks before it leaves again for Buffalo in May.

Michigan and Illinois will try to get back on track Saturday at Memorial Stadium. No. 24 Michigan had a school-record 27-game ...

6, J, N, Q, R, Z to Canal St.; 1 at Canal St.; A, C, E at Canal St.; F at East Broadway Following the path of a canal dug in the early 1800s to drain southern Manhattan's contaminated Collect Pond ...

Under the circumstances, anyone and everyone associated with Saturday's game in Champaign, where No. 22 Illinois will host No. 24 Michigan in a pivotal matchup for both teams, should be pleased ...

Michigan football will return from its bye week Oct. 19 to play Illinois at 3:30 p.m., CBS announced Monday. Michigan (4-2, 1-1 Big Ten) is ranked No. 21, dropping 11 spots after its 27-17 ...

Big Ten football returns to the gridiron this weekend as No. 22 Illinois plays host to No. 24 Michigan in college football’s Week 8 action on Saturday. Let’s take a look at the latest ...