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The Hennepin Canal State Trail, also just called the Hennepin Canal, is an abandoned waterway in northwest Illinois, between the Mississippi River at Rock Island and the Illinois River near Hennepin. The entire canal is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Illinois Route 84 begins at an intersection with U.S. Route 6 (US 6) south of Colona in Henry County.From US 6, it heads north into the Green Rock neighborhood of Colona, crossing the Hennepin Canal on the south side of town.
Illinois 82 is an undivided, two-lane surface street for its entire length. It crosses the Edwards River, Interstate 80 (I-80), U.S. Route 6 (US 6), the Hennepin Canal and the Green River along its route. It also overlaps Illinois Route 81 in Cambridge.
The Hennepin Canal roughly follows the ancient channel of the Mississippi upstream of Rock Island. The modern channel of the Illinois River was shaped in a matter of days by the Kankakee Torrent . During the melting of the Wisconsin Glacier about 10,000 years ago, a lake formed in present-day Indiana, comparable to one of the modern Great Lakes .
The best long-section of the GIT is the southern section along the state canal trails, between Joliet and the Quad Cities. This southern section includes the Old Plank Road Trail, the Illinois and Michigan Canal Trail, the projected Kaskaskia Alliance Trail and the Hennepin Canal, and is the northern routing of the cross-country American ...
Western end of IL 71 / Illinois River Road / I&M Canal Passage overlap: 98.5: 158.5: I&M Canal Passage east (2871st Road) Eastern end of I&M Canal Passage overlap: Rutland Township: 99.0: 159.3: IL 71 east – Oswego: Eastern end of IL 71 overlap: Marseilles: 104.3: 167.9: I&M Canal Passage west (Main Street) – Illini State Park: Western end ...
Illinois 172 runs north from Illinois 92 through Tampico. It then runs east over a feeder for the Hennepin Canal to Illinois 40. Illinois 172 is a two-lane surface road for its entire length. It is known as Main Street through Tampico, Tampico Road around Tampico, and Star Road for the east–west portion.
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