Illinois and Michigan Canal
The Illinois and Michigan Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River. In Illinois, it ran 96 miles from the Chicago River in Bridgeport, Chicago to the Illinois River at LaSalle-Peru.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Canal
- Description: canal
- Also known as: “I & M Canal”, “I&M Canal”, and “Illinois & Michigan Canal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lemont station and Lemont High School.
Lemont station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lemont station is a station on Metra's Heritage Corridor in Lemont, Illinois. The station is 25.3 miles away from Union Station, the northern terminus of the line.
Lemont High School
School
Photo: Ryanmcv, Public domain.
Lemont High School, or LHS, is a public four-year high school located in Lemont, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.
Cog Hill Golf & Country Club
Golf course
Cog Hill Golf & Country Club is a public golf course and country club located in Palos Park, Illinois, 30 miles southwest of Chicago. Cog Hill hosted the PGA Tour's BMW Championship from 2009 to 2011 on its championship course Dubsdread, as well as 16 times when the tournament was known as the Western Open. Cog Hill Golf & Country Club is situated 1½ miles east of Illinois and Michigan Canal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lemont and Bolingbrook.
Lemont
Photo: Ryanmcv, Public domain.
Lemont is a village in the Chicagoland region of Illinois, a state in the Midwest of the United States of America.
Bolingbrook
Photo: lanehaugen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bolingbrook is a village in Will and DuPage counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a southwest suburb of Chicago on I-55 and Historic Route 66. The village was a new town built on the Gateway Wetlands west of the Des Plaines River in the 1960s.
Darien
Town
Photo: Hsully03, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darien is a city in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 22,011. A southwestern suburb of Chicago, Darien was named after the town of Darien, Connecticut. Darien is situated 5 miles north of Illinois and Michigan Canal.
Illinois and Michigan Canal
- Category: body of water
- Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Western Frisian—“Illinois and Michigan Canal” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Illinois and Michigan Canal”
- Chinese: “伊利諾伊和密歇根運河”
- Dutch: “Illinois and Michigan Canal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قناة الينوى وميتشيجان”
- French: “canal Illinois et Michigan”
- French: “Canal Illinois et Michigan”
- German: “Illinois and Michigan Canal”
- Hebrew: “תעלת אילינוי ומישיגן”
- Japanese: “イリノイ・アンド・ミシガン運河国立遺産回廊”
- Japanese: “イリノイ・ミシガン運河”
- Japanese: “イリノイ＝ミシガン運河”
- Korean: “일리노이 미시간 운하”
- Welsh: “Camlas Illinois and Michigan”
- Western Frisian: “Illinois en Michigankanaal”
- Western Frisian: “Illinois- en Michigankanaal”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Hastings and Maple Leaf Estates.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bethany Lutheran Cemetery and Brown Park.
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