Latest Past Events

Passage to Chicago Book Signing

Lock 16 Center 754 First Street, LaSalle

Come join us on Saturday November 17th 2018, 12:00pm - 2:00pm at the Lock 16 Cafe & Visitor Center for a book signing with author & illustrator Tom Willcockson for his award winning book Passage to Chicago: A Journey on the Illinois & Michigan Canal in the

Dinner & a Little History: World War II on the Great Lakes

Gaylord Building, Lockport 200 W. 8th Street, Lockport

Join us, Wednesday November 14th 2018, at the Gaylord Building for our Dinner Lecture Series: World War II on the Great Lakes! The Great Lakes of North America were far from the battlefields of World War II but the factories, training camps, and shipyards of the region

Will County History Seminars

175thAnniversary

Join presenters from the Will County Historical Museum at Joliet Junior College for a series of six seminars on early Will County history. Each night will cover a different topic and time will be allotted for audience participation. Topics that will be covered are: -History of Will