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Illinois and Michigan Canal

Index Illinois and Michigan Canal

The Illinois and Michigan Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. [1]

81 relations: Abraham Lincoln, Blue Island, Illinois, Bridgeport, Chicago, Brownfield land, Bubbly Creek, Canal, Channahon State Park, Channahon, Illinois, Chicago, Chicago 1885 cholera epidemic myth, Chicago Portage, Chicago River, Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, David Leavitt (banker), Des Plaines River, DuPage River, Eastern United States, Erie Canal, Gebhard Woods State Park, Great Chicago Fire, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Basin, Gulf of Mexico, Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, Heritage Corridor, Illinois, Illinois Country, Illinois River, Illinois Route 53, Illinois Territory, Illinois Waterway, Irish people, Jacques Marquette, James Hutchinson Woodworth, Joliet, Illinois, Lake Michigan, LaSalle, Illinois, Lemont, Illinois, Linear park, List of National Historic Landmarks in Illinois, Lock (water navigation), Lockport, Illinois, Louis Jolliet, Marseilles, Illinois, Matthew Laflin, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Mississippi River, Morris, Illinois, Nathaniel Pope, ..., National Heritage Area, National Historic Landmark, Navigable aqueduct, Navvy, Ninian Edwards, North Utica, Illinois, Northeastern United States, Ottawa, Illinois, Panic of 1837, Peru, Illinois, Plat, Portage, Rail transport, Romeoville, Illinois, Samuel D. Lockwood, Seneca, Illinois, Sewage, Shabbona Trail, Slave states and free states, Southern United States, Subsistence agriculture, Summit, Illinois, The Volunteer (canal boat), Towpath, Treaty of St. Louis (1816), U.S. Route 66, U.S. state, United Kingdom, United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Congress, Willow Springs, Illinois. Expand index (31 more) »

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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Blue Island, Illinois

Blue Island is a city in Cook County, Illinois, located approximately south of Chicago's Loop.

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Bridgeport, Chicago

Bridgeport, one of 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois, is a neighborhood on the city's South Side, bounded on the north by the South Branch of the Chicago River, on the west by Bubbly Creek, on the south by Pershing Road, and on the east by the Union Pacific railroad tracks.

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Brownfield land

Brownfield land is a term used in urban planning to describe any previously developed land that is not currently in use, whether contaminated or not or, in North America, more specifically to describe land previously used for industrial or commercial purposes with known or suspected pollution including soil contamination due to hazardous waste.

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Bubbly Creek

Bubbly Creek is the nickname given to the South Fork of the South Branch of the Chicago River.

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Canal

Canals, or navigations, are human-made channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or to service water transport vehicles.

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Channahon State Park

Channahon State Park is an Illinois state park in Will County, Illinois, United States.

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Channahon, Illinois

Channahon is a village in Grundy and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago 1885 cholera epidemic myth

The Chicago 1885 cholera epidemic myth is a persistent urban legend, stating that 90,000 people in Chicago died of typhoid fever and cholera in 1885.

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Chicago Portage

The Chicago Portage is a water gap, and in the past a sometime wind-gap portage, connecting the watersheds (BrE: drainage basins) and the navigable waterways of the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.

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Chicago River

The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of that runs through the city of Chicago, including its center (the Chicago Loop).

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Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal

The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, is a canal system that connects the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River.

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Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad

The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway) was a Class I railroad in the United States.

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David Leavitt (banker)

David Leavitt (August 29, 1791 – December 30, 1879) was an early New York City banker and financier.

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Des Plaines River

The Des Plaines River is a river that flows southward for U.S. Geological Survey.

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DuPage River

The DuPage River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Eastern United States

The Eastern United States, commonly referred to as the American East or simply the East, is a region roughly coinciding with the boundaries of the United States established in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which bounded the new country to the west along the Mississippi River.

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Erie Canal

The Erie Canal is a canal in New York, United States that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal).

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Gebhard Woods State Park

Gebhard Woods State Park is an Illinois state park on in Grundy County, Illinois, United States.

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Great Chicago Fire

The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to Tuesday, October 10, 1871.

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Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (les Grands-Lacs), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River.

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Great Lakes Basin

The Great Lakes Basin consists of the Great Lakes and the surrounding lands of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in the United States, and the province of Ontario in Canada, whose direct surface runoff and watersheds form a large drainage basin that feeds into the lakes.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent.

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Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard

Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard (August 22, 1802 in Windsor, Vermont – September 14, 1886 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American fur trader, insurance underwriter, and land speculator.

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Heritage Corridor

The Heritage Corridor Line (HC) is a Metra commuter rail line in Chicago, Illinois, and its suburbs.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois Country

The Illinois Country (Pays des Illinois, lit. "land of the Illinois (plural)", i.e. the Illinois people) — sometimes referred to as Upper Louisiana (la Haute-Louisiane; Alta Luisiana) — was a vast region of New France in what is now the Midwestern United States.

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Illinois River

The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois language: Inoka Siipiiwi) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately long, in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Illinois Route 53

Illinois Route 53 (IL 53) is an arterial north–south state highway in northeast Illinois.

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Illinois Territory

The Territory of Illinois was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 1, 1809, until December 3, 1818, when the southern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Illinois.

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Illinois Waterway

The Illinois Waterway system consists of of water from the mouth of the Calumet River to the mouth of the Illinois River at Grafton, Illinois.

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Irish people

The Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are a nation and ethnic group native to the island of Ireland, who share a common Irish ancestry, identity and culture.

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Jacques Marquette

Father Jacques Marquette S.J. (June 1, 1637 – May 18, 1675), sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie, and later founded St. Ignace, Michigan.

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James Hutchinson Woodworth

James Hutchinson Woodworth (December 4, 1804 – March 26, 1869; buried in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago), was a former member of the Illinois State Senate and the Illinois State House of Representatives, served as a Chicago Alderman, was elected to consecutive terms as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1848–1850) as an Independent Democrat, and served one term in the US House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party.

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Joliet, Illinois

Joliet is a city in Will and Kendall counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, southwest of Chicago.

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Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States.

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LaSalle, Illinois

LaSalle is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States, located at the intersection of Interstates 39 and 80.

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Lemont, Illinois

Lemont is a village located in Cook, DuPage, and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, and is a suburb of Chicago.

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Linear park

A linear park is a park in an urban or suburban setting that is substantially longer than it is wide.

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List of National Historic Landmarks in Illinois

There are 87 National Historic Landmarks in Illinois, including Eads Bridge, which spans into Missouri and which the National Park Service credits to Missouri's National Historic Landmark list.

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Lock (water navigation)

A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways.

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Lockport, Illinois

Lockport is a city in Will County, Illinois, United States, located 30 miles southwest of Chicago.

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Louis Jolliet

Louis Jolliet (September 21, 1645last seen May 1700) was a French Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America.

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Marseilles, Illinois

Marseilles is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States.

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Matthew Laflin

Matthew Laflin (December 16, 1803 – May 21, 1897) was an American manufacturer of gunpowder, businessman, philanthropist, and an early pioneer of Chicago, Illinois.

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Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD), originally known as the Sanitary District of Chicago is a special-purpose district, chartered to operate in northern Illinois since 1889.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

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Morris, Illinois

The city of Morris is the county seat of Grundy County, Illinois, United States and part of southwest Chicagoland.

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Nathaniel Pope

Nathaniel W. Pope (January 5, 1784 – January 23, 1850) was a politician and jurist from the U.S. state of Illinois.

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National Heritage Area

A National Heritage Area is a site designated by United States and intended to encourage historic preservation of the area and an appreciation of the history and heritage of the site.

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National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.

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Navigable aqueduct

Navigable aqueducts (sometimes called water bridges) are bridge structures that carry navigable waterway canals over other rivers, valleys, railways or roads.

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Navvy

Navvy, a shorter form of navigator (UK) or navigational engineer (US), is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects and occasionally (in North America) to refer to mechanical shovels and earth moving machinery.

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Ninian Edwards

Ninian Edwards (March 17, 1775July 20, 1833) was a founding political figure of the state of Illinois.

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North Utica, Illinois

North Utica, often known as Utica, is a village in Utica Township, LaSalle County, Illinois.

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Northeastern United States

The Northeastern United States, also referred to as the American Northeast or simply the Northeast, is a geographical region of the United States bordered to the north by Canada, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Southern United States, and to the west by the Midwestern United States.

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Ottawa, Illinois

Ottawa is a city located at the confluence of the navigable Illinois River and Fox River in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States.

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Panic of 1837

The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s.

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Peru, Illinois

Peru is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States.

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Plat

In the United States, a plat (plan or cadastral map) is a map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land.

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Portage

Portage or portaging is the practice of carrying water craft or cargo over land, either around an obstacle in a river, or between two bodies of water.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Romeoville, Illinois

Romeoville is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States.

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Samuel D. Lockwood

Samuel Drake Lockwood (August 2, 1789 – April 23, 1874) was an Illinois politician who served as the state's Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Supreme Court Justice.

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Seneca, Illinois

Seneca is a village in LaSalle and Grundy counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Sewage

Sewage (or domestic wastewater or municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced from a community of people.

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Shabbona Trail

The Chief Shabbona Trail is a hiking, bicycling and canoeing trail, located between Joliet and Morris, Illinois.

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Slave states and free states

In the history of the United States, a slave state was a U.S. state in which the practice of slavery was legal, and a free state was one in which slavery was prohibited or being legally phased out.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.

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Subsistence agriculture

Subsistence agriculture is a self-sufficiency farming system in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their entire families.

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Summit, Illinois

Summit (or Summit-Argo) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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The Volunteer (canal boat)

The Volunteer is a 76-foot replica of a 19th-century canal boat which is owned and operated by the Canal Corridor Association.

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Towpath

A towpath is a road or trail on the bank of a river, canal, or other inland waterway.

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Treaty of St. Louis (1816)

The Treaty of St.

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U.S. Route 66

U.S. Route 66 (US 66 or Route 66), also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways within the U.S. Highway System.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel, making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.

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Willow Springs, Illinois

Willow Springs is a village in Cook and DuPage counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_and_Michigan_Canal

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