For all of you interested in watching the upcoming solar eclipse on August 21 at Fort de Chartres, Site Specialist, Dr. Todd Hamilton created a Facebook event entitled Solar Eclipse 2017, with the following info: Currently, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources has no official plans to host a special event on the day of…

Hear ye! Hear ye!  Illinois Bicentennial Celebration 100 Day Countdown event will begin Saturday, August 26, at the Kaskaskia Bell and the day’s events will conclude at Fort de Chartres State Historic Site! Thank you to Illinois Bicentennial Commission, Fort de Chartres State Historic Site’s agency-Illinois Historic Preservation, a division of IDNR, and Fort staff…

June Rendezvous is just 10 days away and are we excited! In just a week and a half, we will be welcoming participants and visitors to Fort de Chartres to experience the amazing sights and sounds that only this Rendezvous brings! The Rendezvous weekend’s weather forecast is looking beautiful and the Fort grounds are in…

Thursday, May 18th, 2017, former site supervisor, Darrell Duensing, and Kathy Janik, Fort librarian, welcomed the Fort de Chartres State Historic Site’s new Site Services Specialist, Dr. Todd J. Hamilton, Ph.D. Todd has a love for all things French and has a passion for foreign languages, cultures, history, and literature. As a Navy veteran with…

Thanks to the efforts of Fort longtime supporter and volunteer, Dave Horne, a new page has been created on this Fort de Chartres website. This new June Rendezvous page contains photos, overall event information, an event schedule, and participant rules. Dave also created a great video for the page that captures the feel of this…

The interior appearance of Fort de Chartres State Historic Site has changed! The Fort’s interior Ghosting deconstruction project is complete and the interpretive Ghosting structures, for now, are a bittersweet memory, but the project itself is much more. It is an accomplishment by those who love and are dedicated to Fort de Chartres -a very…

As most are aware, Les Amis du Fort de Chartres is continuing to work to find funding avenues for repair projects at the Fort. With the help of volunteers, some of the smaller projects are currently being undertaken. The repair procedures for the larger Fort projects were submitted for emergency funds from the state’s Capital…