| Pages i-xxii |
Introductory Pages |
| Pages 1-8 |
"Seek to Preserve Historic
Waterway" |
| Pages 9-10 |
"Lockport, Home of the
First Steel Plow" |
| Pages 11-17 |
"Ill. & Mich. Canal
Annual Commissioner鈥檚 Reports, 1825-1916" |
| Pages 18-20 |
"Illinois-Michigan Canal
Restoration Under Way" |
| Pages 21-29 |
"Early Days on the Illinois & Michigan
Canal" |
| Pages 30-34 |
"The Great Canal Scrip
Fraud" |
| Pages 35-41 |
"The Illinois and Michigan
Canal and Other Illinois Inland Waterways" |
| Pages 42-43 |
"Valley Greatest Influence
on area" |
| Pages 44-46 |
"John Lane and the First
Steel Plow" |
| Pages 47-49 |
"Many 'firsts' Occurred
in 1830s" |
| Pages 50-51 |
"Lockport Viewed by
1840s Visitor" |
| Pages 52-53 |
"Lack of funds dashes
1840s hopes" |
| Pages 54-55 |
"Ill Wind Blew Down
Early Canal" |
| Pages 56-57 |
"Around the Tree 鈥� Circa
1860" |
| Pages 58-59 |
"Homer, Lockport Always
Close" |
| Pages 60-61 |
"Lockport as Financial
Center" |
| Pages 62-64 |
" 'Drunken, Dirty' Irish
Build Canal" |
| Pages 65-66 |
"I & M Boatyard
Saw Heavy Use" |
| Pages 67-68 |
" 'Culture' Came
to Lockport in 1850" |
| Pages 69-70 |
"1850s Town Had Many
Businesses" |
| Pages 71-84 |
"Canal Boats on the
Illinois and Michigan Canal" |
| Page 85 |
"Lockport's Old
Central Grade School Building" |
| Page 86 |
"The Kankakee Navigation" |
| Pages 87-95 |
"Kankakee and Iroquois
River Improvement" |
| Pages 96-104 |
"The 'City of Pekin' Story" |
| Pages 105-113 |
"The Politics of Transportation" |
| Pages 114-126 |
"I&M Canal Locks" |
| Pages 127-130 |
"Illinois and Michigan
Canal" |
| Pages 131-143 |
"William Gooding, Chief
Engineer, Iamp;M Canal" |
| Pages 144-155 |
"The Chicago and Kankakee
Portages: A Comparison, 1673-1848" |
| Pages 156-158 |
"The Illinois Waterway:
It's 310 Year History" |
| Pages 159-161 |
"Waterway Observes Its
50th Anniversary" |
| Pages 162-168 |
"The Illinois and Michigan
Canal and Town Development in Northern Illinois" |
| Pages 169-173 |
"People in Public Works" |
| Pages 174-179 |
"Decoys and Decoy Carvers" |
| Pages 180-188 |
"Landscape, Townscape
and Canalscape on the Iamp;M Canal Corridor" |
| Page 189 |
"Main Street Along the
Illinois and Michigan Canal" |
| Pages 190-217 |
"Seeing the Land" |
| Pages 218-229 |
"Traveling by Water
Across Illinois from the 17th Century to the 20th Century" |
| Pages 230-242 |
"The Architecture of
Punishment: Jeremy Bentham, Michael Foucalt and the Construction
of Stateville Penitentiary, Illinois" |
| Pages 243-248 |
"The Canals of Northern
Illinois and Their Impact on Settelement and Economic Development" |
| Pages 249-253 |
"Canal Boats on the
Illinois and Michigan Canal" |
| Page 254 |
"A Trip on the Raging
Canal in 1848" |
| Pages 255-266 |
"Chicago: The Hydraulic
City and Its Enviornmental Impact" |
| Page 267 |
"News and Historical
Notes from Mainstreet Lockport" |
| Pages 268-274 |
"Joliet Limestone: The
Rise and Fall of a Nineteenth Century Building Material and Its
Architectural Impact on the Joliet, Illinois Area" |
| Pages 275-276 |
"Historic Preservation
in the Lockport, Illinois Commercial Downtown" |
| Pages 277-284 |
"Tracing History: Maps
of the Illinois River Since 1673" |
| Pages 285-288 |
"Architecture of the
Grain Trade on the Illinois and Michigan Canal" |
