Quad-Citians universally know it by its nickname: the Hennepin Canal. Officially, it is the Illinois and Mississippi Canal, an 80-foot-wide waterway built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to ...

A drawing shows boats full of celebrants as they mark the opening of the Illinois & Michigan Canal in 1848. (Chicago History Museum). (Illinois and Michigan Canal in 1848) Story Slug: canal ...

Limestone seemed an obvious building material 175 years ago for the masons piecing together Lock #1 along the old Illinois & Michigan Canal in Lockport.