Buck Barry sits alongside the western side of the Illinois River, near Hardin in Calhoun County

Minutes after the old Morris bridge was demolished in 2003, with the new Rt 47 bridge to the left

Pauline Marchiori, owner and operator of Ray’s Place, Hennepin

TARP pump house entrance, Calumet Water Reclamation Plant, Calumet River

Deckhands Jason Ellis, Mike “Ranger” Riley and Kevin Cluck on The Orleanian, near Beardstown

Aerial view of the Illinois River at the north boundary of the Emiquon at Big Sister Creek, near Havana

Commercial fisherman Jim Beasley prepares a paddlefish at his shop in Grafton

60 inch butterhead on the Merlin McCoy, owned by TNT Dredging, operating near Kingston Mines

Carp fisherman Paul Pezalla on the south side of the Chicago River, west of the Columbus Drive bridge, Chicago

River level indicator and cable-wrapped mooring cells, near the Cedar Street bridge, East Peoria

Towboat and tow approaches the Peoria and Pekin Union Railroad drawbridge, on the south side of Peoria

Pat and Mary Shea at the Mertel Gravel Company, Peru

City of Chicago machinist Paul Arteaga beneath the Ashland Avenue Bridge, Chicago River

Todd Collins, Ron Jones and Brent Millinger in their duck blind on Sawmill Lake, near Henry

Deckhand Mike Clark, inside the Lockport Lock, Sanitary and Shipping Canal

Hardin Hotel owner and proprietor Sue Schulte, Hardin

Case Street bascule bridge over the Des Plaines River, Joliet

Betty and Kenny DeFord at the Boat Tavern, Bath

Dale Hamm, The Last of the Market Hunters, near his home in Bath

Jersey County Grain Company dock, near Hardin

Disused 19th-century lock, Henry

A towboat navigates the ice pack of the river near Chillicothe

Looking west from the City of Chicago Police Marine Unit Pier to Lake Shore Drive and the Chicago Skyline

Looking east across the river near the remains of the 19th century lock at Copperas Creek near Banner

Sand Point Light and Daymark at sunrise, near Rome