Brighton is a small community that dates back to the early 19th century, when settlers began the transformation of the Illinois prairie into productive farmland.

By the turn of the century, the Illinois prairie had vanished into farms, and the heart of the prairie chickens' range had disappeared.

Your guides, dressed as Canal Era crew and passengers, will take you back in time to life on the American frontier and the Illinois prairie.

Not on the Illinois prairie.

Life in the Prairie Land, 1846 - An account of life on the Illinois prairie near Pekin between 1836 and 1840.

At first the journey was easy enough, for they passed across the snowy Illinois prairies, broken by great reaches of lofty woods.

The idea for the flight came to Lindbergh above the Illinois prairie, on one of his St. Louis-Chicago mail runs in 1926.

The Fermilab scientists decided to use the land surface as an experiment in restoring Illinois original prairie.

It includes native woodlands and a restored Illinois prairie.

She met Jack Reagan in a farm town along the Illinois prairie.