Lewis University Canal and Regional History Collection "View looking south or downstream from the SantaFe R.R. Bridge on left branch of Sanitary District Canal showing the south end of Dike at the junction of the DesPlaines River and the Sanitary District Canal below Lockport lock during high water. Houses on right bank of DesPlaines River. SantaFe R.R. bridge on the left in foreground. Ruby Street bridge in rear, showing land at right abatment that may be required to provide better approach to bridge." (From back of picture) |
"The I&M Canal, as it was known, once stretced 96 miles, linking Lake
Michigan with the Illinois River at LaSalle, Illinois, the two bodies
of water from which the canal took its name. It was cut at a cost of
$9.5 million in the bed of a river that is thought to have flowed down
the same route about 8,000 years ago".
(Illinois Department of Conservation life and land together.
Illinois and Michigan Canal State Trail)
Updated March 1, 2000
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