LaSalle County, Illinois
LaSalle Real Estate and Local Guide
LaSalle is a historic Illinois River city in LaSalle County that grew with the Illinois and Michigan Canal and later became a zinc-production center; with neighboring Peru it forms the core of the Illinois Valley.
Living in LaSalle
LaSalle served as the western terminus of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, completed in 1848. Source: en.wikipedia.org
Homes in LaSalle
Source: ACS 2023
What makes LaSalle home
Hegeler Carus Mansion
57-room Second Empire mansion completed in 1876, a National Historic Landmark on Seventh Street
Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Volunteer canal boat
LaSalle was the western terminus of the I&M Canal; the replica boat Volunteer gives mule-pulled rides from the Lock 14 basin
Starved Rock State Park
State park about five miles east of LaSalle, the most visited state park in Illinois
Matthiessen State Park
State park created from the estate of industrialist Frederick William Matthiessen, near LaSalle