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Sketch of the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the proposed Hennepin Canal, showing their relations to the Illinois River, Mississippi River, and Lake Michigan, 1883, in the collection of the National Archives and Records Administration Hennepin Canal after construction The steamer Marion with Rambler in tow at Aqueduct number 4, 1908 Lock 31 Lock 24
originally Illinois Central Railroad 41°19′20.63″N 89°04′59.48″W / 41.3223972°N 89.0831889°W / 41.3223972; -89.0831889 Abraham Lincoln Memorial Bridge
The Illinois Waterway system consists of 336 miles (541 km) of navigable water from the mouth of the Calumet River at Chicago to the mouth of the Illinois River at Grafton, Illinois. Based primarily on the Illinois River , it is a system of rivers, lakes, and canals that provide a shipping connection from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico ...
The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois: Inoka Siipiiwi [4]) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River at approximately 273 miles (439 km) in length. Located in the U.S. state of Illinois , [ 5 ] the river has a drainage basin of 28,756.6 square miles (74,479 km 2 ). [ 6 ]
IL 29 south / Illinois River Road / Ronald Reagan Trail – Peoria: South end of IL 29 / Illinois River Road / Ronald Reagan Trail overlap: Bureau Junction: 47.6: 76.6: IL 29 north / Illinois River Road – Spring Valley, Depue: North end of IL 29 overlap; south end of Illinois River Road Princeton Spur: Leepertown Township: 49.9: 80.3: I-180 ...
Map of the Trace. The Trace was created by millions of migrating bison that were numerous in the region from the Great Lakes to the Piedmont of North Carolina. [2] It was part of a greater buffalo migration route that extended from present-day Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky, through Bullitt's Lick, south of present-day Louisville, and across the Falls of the Ohio River to Indiana, then ...
Here also, US 30 bypasses the majority of the town, intersecting Illinois Route 40 (IL 40) and having an interchange with Interstate 88 (I-88) on the southeast side of Rock Falls. East of Rock Falls, US 30 turns directly eastward and intersects IL 26 well south of Dixon. It also intersects US 52 at a remote location north of Amboy in Lee County.
IL 40 to I-80 – Rock Falls, Buda, Peoria: Princeton: 60.6: 97.5: US 34 east / IL 26 north (Main Street) / Illinois River Road (Princeton Spur) / Ronald Reagan Trail – Mendota, Dixon: Eastern end of US 34 overlap; western end of IL 26/Illinois River Road/Ronald Reagan Trail overlap; former IL 89 spur to Tiskilwa (state maintained outside ...