The Great Sauk Trail

Part of an ancient network of Indian paths, the Great Sauk Trail, as it came to be known, extended from Rock Island in present-day Illinois to the Detroit River. It played a significant role in the communications between the native ...

The Great Sauk Trail and The Chicago Road

You are standing along Michigan Avenue, a road much older than the pavement that now covers it.

This road began like many other transportation routes through America, as a well-travelled Native American trade path. This original path, often referred to ...