Molesworth wrote:
OK guys (Oh! List of the World)

I know there must be a route from Lake Michigan thro Chicago to the Miss.


There are two, actually. One connects to the lake just south
of the Navy Pier, the other is further south at Calumet and
joins the same route about 15 miles down. Both go by way of
the Illinois River to the Mississippi, thru Joliet & Peoria,
joining the Mississippi at Grafton.


Does anyone know either the route, or can point me to a book on the
route?

(It'll help if I know where I'm going!)


Some beginning reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinoi...Michigan_Canal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago...and_Ship_Canal

Makes it sounds very appetizing, yes? Anyway, my wife & I
are planning to make a cruise of the Great Loop (around the
eastern half of the US) next year, and that includes this
particular waterway; most cruisers go by way of the Ohio &
Tennessee Rivers to the Tenn-Tom Waterway, which is much
more pleasant cruising than the Mississippi. The ones who
have done it say that the best guide to the upper rivers is
Quimby's

https://websvr1.mn1.fasturl.net/ssl/...s-moreinfo.htm

For the Tennessee & Tenn-Tom, the best guide is Fred Myers
http://www.cruisingguide.com/cp/scri...?idCategory=17

For strip charts of the waterways themselves, I've
downloaded most of them from the Army Corps of Engineers but
they keep changing the links, a little Googling will
probably pull them right up.

Maybe we'll see you somewhere along the way!

Fair Skies
Doug King