An algae-laden segment of the Illinois and Michigan Canal as it passes under a highway bridge in Utica, Illinois, USA.
An algae-laden segment of the Illinois and Michigan Canal as it passes under a highway bridge in Utica, Illinois. The canal connected the Great Lakes (Lake Michigan) to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. It ran 96 miles from the Chicago River in Chicago to the Illinois River at LaSalle-Peru, Illinois. The canal helped establish Chicago as the transportation hub of the United States, even before the railroad era. It was opened in 1848 and was largely replaced by the wider and shorter Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in 1900 and it ceased transportation operations in 1933. The Illinois and Michigan Canal Locks and Towpath, a collection of eight engineering structures and segments of the canal between Lockport and LaSalle-Peru, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964. The canal derived its name from the its two terminal points, the Illinois River and Lake Michigan.
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Location: Utica, Illinois, USA
Photo credit: © Bruce Leighty / Alamy / Afripics
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