| Name | Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor |
| Brief Description | National Park |
| Type | Attraction |
| Category | Joliet Illinois National Park |
| Description | The Illinois & Michigan Canal, completed in 1848, connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River watershed along a longstanding Indian portage route. The 97-mile canal extended from the Chicago River near Lake Michigan to the Illinois River at Peru, Illinois. It rapidly transformed Chicago from a small settlement to a critical transportation hub between the East and the developing Midwest. The towpath trail along the canal is a State park that runs through a rural and wooded landscape linking a number of towns laid out by the original canal commission. |
| CSZ | Lockport, IL |
| Handicapped Accessible | No |
| Website | www.nps.gov/ilmi/index.htm |
| Last Updated | 10/3/2004 |
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