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Prairie Passage
| Author | : Emily Harris |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0252067142 |
Exhibition guide on the traveling photography exhibition and subsequent book titled Prairie Passage, by Edward Ranney.
Illinois and Michigan Canal
| Author | : David A. Belden |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0738582972 |
Pictures and histories of canals in northeastern Illinois.
Starved Rock State Park
| Author | : Dennis Cremin |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9780738519906 |
Visitors to Starved Rock State Park are often struck by the grandeur of its rustic lodge. They marvel at its massive fireplace and hand-hewn logs. Yet few realize that this structure is a tangible reminder of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which in the 1930s provided work for young men left unemployed by the Great Depression. Starved Rock Lodge was one of the biggest projects of the "CCC boys" along the Illinois and Michigan Canal, but it was far from the only one. Working as a team and living in camps from Willow Springs to La Salle-Peru, they built facilities that transformed the old canal into what became the I&M Canal State Trail (1974) and the nation's first National Heritage Corridor (1984). President Franklin D. Roosevelt's nation-wide program preserved the landscape from the ravages of soil erosion, flooding, and deforestation. In the process, the young men built beautiful parks, buildings, and shelters that we use and admire today.
The Mystery at Black Partridge Woods
| Author | : Pat Camalliere |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2016-08-21 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781937484446 |
A legendary water beast, mysterious wolves, and an unsolved murder echo through two centuries. Wawetseka, a Potawatomi woman, is shocked when a body washes up near her village, but events soon turn worse: her only son is arrested for murder. To free him she must track down the real killer. Her investigation takes her through the wilderness of 1817 northern Illinois and to Fort Dearborn as she races desperately, fighting the harsh terrain and the realities of vigilante justice. Two centuries later, Wawetseka's descendent, Nick Pokagon, a charismatic young scientist, partners with Cora Tozzi, Cisco, and Frannie to publish Wawetseka's adventures. But then Cora and her friends are attacked. What does Wawetseka's story have to do with the present? How can the mysterious assailant be stopped? The Mystery at Black Partridge Woods tells two related stories with unexpected parallels. It is both a fast-paced adventure and a mystery that paints a picture of the little-known earliest days of what is now Lemont, Illinois. Readers who enjoy amateur sleuths and adventure will find it hard to put down.
The Mystery at Sag Bridge
| Author | : Pat Camalliere |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2015-04-04 |
| Genre | : Cemeteries |
| ISBN | : 9781937484309 |
A century-old murder mystery A dangerous ghost An amateur historian... What binds them together? Cora Tozzi is a retired businesswoman who, after nursing her mother through her final illness, wishes only for a peaceful orderly world in her suburban Chicago home. When an angry spirit begins to leave cryptic messages on her computer and threatens those around her, Cora is forced to dig into the town's notorious past to uncover secrets that will free the bonds that tie her and the spirit. With the help of her husband and their friend, Frannie, Cora uses her skills as an amateur historian in a search that takes them into unexpected terrain including subterranean passages, an eerie graveyard, and shadowy paths in isolated forests where a sinister predator is awakened. As they battle unpredictable supernatural powers, the story takes a poignant turn: the spirit's life is revealed, and both women, a century apart, examine threads into the past and the future, their loss and longing linked across the generations.
Illinois & Michigan Canal, National Heritage Corridor
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1 |
| Release | : 1995* |
| Genre | : Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor (Ill.) |
| ISBN | : |
A History of the Chicago Portage
| Author | : Benjamin Sells |
| Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2021-08-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0810143917 |
Seven muddy miles transformed a region and a nation This fascinating account explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important—and neglected—sites in early US history. A seven-mile-long strip of marsh connecting the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers, the portage was inhabited by the earliest indigenous people in the Midwest and served as a major trade route for Native American tribes. A link between the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Ocean, the Chicago Portage was a geopolitically significant resource that the French, British, and US governments jockeyed to control. Later, it became a template for some of the most significant waterways created in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The portage gave Chicago its name and spurred the city’s success—and is the reason why the metropolis is located in Illinois, not Wisconsin. A History of the Chicago Portage: The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America is the definitive story of a national landmark.
Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor, Illinois
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1 |
| Release | : 1988* |
| Genre | : Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor (Ill.) |
| ISBN | : |
