Illinois Waterway Visitor Center, IL
Visitor Services

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Through exhibits and a theater, the visitor center interprets building and maintaining the Illinois Waterway system and the history of water transportation in Illinois, from the Native American canoe, through the flatboat, canal boat, and steamboat eras, through modern transportation. The center provides up-close views of river barges and other watercraft as they “lock through” the Starved Rock Lock & Dam and panoramic river view.