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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 commercial shipping connection from the Great Lakes to the Gulf ...
Mississippi River. Ohio River. Lusk Creek; Saline River; Wabash River. Little Wabash River. Skillet Fork; Elm River; Fox River; Salt Creek; Bonpas Creek; Embarras ...
During the Quaternary period, Illinois was subject to multiple intervals of glaciation; over 90% of Illinois was formerly covered by glaciers, leaving a variety of glacial landscape features. The Mississippi River, fed by ice-sheet melt and water from glacial lakes, cut a deep valley as it flowed through the region.
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 ]
The Calumet River is a system of heavily industrialized rivers and canals in the region between the south side of Chicago, Illinois, and the city of Gary, Indiana. Historically, the Little Calumet River and the Grand Calumet River were one, the former flowing west from Indiana into Illinois, then turning back east to its mouth at Lake Michigan ...
S. Saline Branch; Saline River (Illinois) Salt Creek (Des Plaines River tributary) Salt Creek (Little Wabash River tributary) Salt Creek (Sangamon River tributary)
The American Bottom region is bordered by tall bluffs such as this one, rising near Dupo, Illinois.This waterfall is called Falling Springs. The American Bottom is the flood plain of the Mississippi River in the Metro East region of Southern Illinois, extending from Alton, Illinois, south to the Kaskaskia River.
Watersheds of Illinois is a list of basins or catchment areas into which the State of Illinois can be divided based on the place to which water flows.. At the simplest level, in pre-settlement times, Illinois had two watersheds: the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, with almost the entire State draining to the Mississippi, except for a small area within a few miles of the Lake.