Category: IDNR
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Quick Hit – Dems Want to Give 1,550 Acre IL State Park to Indian Tribe
Today after a very contentious, but respectful debate, the Illinois House did not advance a bill that would have given the Prairie Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe the 1,550-acre Shabbona state park. The legislation is an attempt to make amends for the alleged theft of the property dating back to 1840 when the tribe left for a visit to kinsmen in Kansas and later returned to Illinois to find out that their land had been sold to others.