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Lockport, the town the canal commission built for itself
Lockport, Illinois
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Lockport was platted in 1836, the year digging started on the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and two years later it was named the canal's headquarters. The town takes its name from Lock No. 1. Fifty nine buildings in the downtown and canalside blocks are listed together as a district, nearly all of them the limestone and brick of a place whose entire reason for existing ran down the middle of it.
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