(615 ILCS 45/1) (from Ch. 19, par. 37.11)
    Sec. 1. The State-owned Illinois and Michigan Canal, extending from Chicago to the Illinois River at LaSalle, passing through Cook, Will, Grundy, and LaSalle Counties, is no longer useful or operated as a canal for commercial purposes and is declared abandoned for the carriage of commerce by water.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 1899.)