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 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.
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| Communities
Surrounding Illinois&Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor | |
| Note: The times listed below are approximate driving times to the park. | Joliet, IL (12 min.
) Pop. 106,221
Channahon, IL (16 min.
) Pop. 7,344
Union, IL (17 min.
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New Lenox, IL (18 min.
) Pop. 17,771
Lockport, IL (20 min.
) Pop. 15,191
Manhattan, IL (21 min.
) Pop. 3,330
Minooka, IL (21 min.
) Pop. 3,971
Elwood, IL (21 min.
) Pop. 1,620
| Birds, IL (21 min.
) Pop. 51
Plainfield, IL (23 min.
) Pop. 13,038
Frankfort, IL (26 min.
) Pop. 10,391
Romeoville, IL (26 min.
) Pop. 21,153
Mokena, IL (27 min.
) Pop. 14,583
Bolingbrook, IL (29 min.
) Pop. 56,321
Wilmington, IL (30 min.
) Pop. 5,134
Lemont, IL (32 min.
) Pop. 13,098
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