"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 ...

Shrewsbury fire chief said the man, who lives in Brentwood and had been missing since Tuesday morning, is believed to have ...

Monday, Sept. 17. The Governor is determined to call an extra session of the Legislature on the 14th of January to decide relative to the sale of the James' River Canal. Advertisement ...

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 ...

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 ...

Voters in Madison County and other places around Illinois will be asked whether a new state should be formed out of downstate ...

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 ...

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.

Northern Illinois was once part of “Illinois Country ... came by way of New Englanders taking the recently completed Erie ...

It's a race that's truly unlike any other in Illinois ... on the Rock River, to Colona, near the mighty Mississippi, and ...

Polling averages are adjusted based on state and national polls, which means candidates’ averages can shift even if no new polls have been added to this page. Read the full methodology here. On Sept.

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 ...