1. ISHS Annual Meeting April 28-29, 2006

2. Starved Rock Lodge

3. View of the I & M Canal from the LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

4. LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

5. Charlotte Renehan, Mary Lou Johnsrud, and Alberta Conover on the I & M Canal

6. ISHS members learning about the LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

7. Blacksmith Dan Etheridge demonstrating his art at the LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

8. LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

10. Marv Ehlers and David and Virginia Scott in downtown Utica

11. Dennis Williams paying close attention to the teacher in the one-room schoolhouse at the LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

12. Bill Furry and Ted Wachhold at the 1865 one-room Aitken School at the LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

13. Shabbona’s rock at the LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

14. Elaine Egdorf on Shabbona’s rock at the LaSalle County Historical Museum in Utica

15. The I & M Lock 14 in LaSalle

16. ISHS members learn from an I & M Lock 14 re-enactor

17. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hoshaw at the I & M Canal Lock 14

18. The Cherry Mine slag heaps

19. Rededication of the Cherry Mine Disaster Marker

20. Cherry Mine Disaster graves at Cherry Cemetery

21. ISHS members boarding the caboose at the Mendota Railroad Museum

22. Mendota Railroad Museum

23. Stu Fliege sharing his wealth of railroad knowledge with Bill Furry and Larry Hansen at the Mendota Railroad Museum

24. Mendota Railroad Museum

29. Jim and Robyn Williams at the Annual Meeting Dinner at Pitsticks Pavilion outside Ottawa

30. Stu and Judy Fliege at the Annual Meeting Dinner at Pitsticks Pavilion outside Ottawa

31. Wolf Fuhrig and Gary Vitale at Pitsticks Pavilion outside Ottawa

32. I & M Grain Elevator in Seneca

34. Gerald Hulslander sharing the history of the I & M Grain Elevator in Seneca

35. The I & M Canal at the Grain Elevator in Seneca

36. I & M Grain Elevator in Seneca

37. An early Phillips 66 in Seneca

38. I & M Aqueduct ruins at Fox River

40. Illinois River Lock & Dam Museum

42. Illinois River Lock & Dam

43. Starved Rock from the Illinois River Lock & Dam

44. Steve Huntley accepts the Superior Achievement Award for Truman K. Gibson, Jr., and his landmark book “Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America” at the Awards Ceremony at Starved Rock Lodge

45. Roger Biles accepts an award for his book “Illinois: A History of the Land and Its People” at the Awards Ceremony at Starved Rock Lodge

46. Bob Saigh from the Hinsdale Historical Society accepts an award at the Awards Ceremony at Starved Rock Lodge

47. Patrick McDaniel accepts an award for the Macon County Historical Society award for the museum’s brochure

48. Happy Dean presents Betsy Brown the Olive Foster “Teacher of the Year Award”

49. Marv Ehlers presents Peggy Hood with an award for the Bushnell Area Historical Society

50. Marjorie Stueckemann, Evelyn Krenek Fergle, and Juli Nelson receive an award for their publication on the Bohemian National Cemetery

51. Sue Betz receives awards for Northwestern University Press

52. Marjorie Fechtig and Janet Pritchett of the White County Historical Society receive an award for “Making History Come Alive,” a program for second- and fifth-grade students

53. Wallace Best receives an award for “Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952