Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . g the waters of Lake Michigan byway of the Des Plaines River with those of theIllinois, attracted the attention of the earliestFrench explorers of this region, and was com-mented upon, from time to time, by them andtheir successors. As early as 1808 the subject ofa canal uniting Lake Michigan with the Illinoiswas discussed in a report on roads and canals byAlbert Gallatin, then Secretary of the Treasury,and the project was touched upon in a bill relat-ing to the Erie Canal and other enterprises, intro-duced in Congress in 1811. The measure continuedto
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . g the waters of Lake Michigan byway of the Des Plaines River with those of theIllinois, attracted the attention of the earliestFrench explorers of this region, and was com-mented upon, from time to time, by them andtheir successors. As early as 1808 the subject ofa canal uniting Lake Michigan with the Illinoiswas discussed in a report on roads and canals byAlbert Gallatin, then Secretary of the Treasury,and the project was touched upon in a bill relat-ing to the Erie Canal and other enterprises, intro-duced in Congress in 1811. The measure continuedto receive attention in the press, in WesternTerritorial Legislatures and in official reports,one of the latter being a report by John C. Cal-houn, as Secretary of War, in 1819, in which it isspoken of as valuable for military 1832 Congress passed an act gi-anting theright of way to the State through the publiclands for such an enterprise, which was followed, ^ \ ?^ . K ? ^ . ^ >< n V ^ ?^ r H ! o •X ?y. % 7\ V O. t »? SANITARY CANAL - CHICAGO f;mMMMM
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