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A Belleville News-Democrat history feature, part of an Illinois Bicentennial series, describes how the Illinois River supported commercial fishing and duck hunting resorts. It also notes that low-water navigability problems led to a canal between LaSalle and Chicago that aided the state's growth.
This is historical background with no new supply, demand or price driver, so it has no meaningful effect on feed grain or commodity prices.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.