Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs Shabbona Lake State Park over to Potawatomi Nation
Published: , in Outdoor News
More than 175 years after their reservation in Illinois was illegally sold at auction, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is now in line to get their land back.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation on March 21 authorizing DNR to hand over to the tribe the ownership title to Shabbona Lake State Park, a 1,500-acre tract in southern DeKalb County that largely overlaps the tribe’s original reservation.
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