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2. Starved Rock State Park - Wikipedia

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   Starved Rock State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by the many canyons within its 2,630 acres (1,064 ha). Located just southeast of the village of Utica, in Deer Park Township, LaSalle County, Illinois, along the south bank of the Illinois River, the park hosts over two million visitors annually, the most for ...

3. Chester Weger - Wikipedia

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   Chester Weger. Chester Otto Weger (born March 3, 1939) [1] is an American man who was convicted in 1961 of the murder of one of three women found slain at Starved Rock State Park the previous year. He was held at Pinckneyville Correctional Center and at one time was the longest serving inmate incarcerated by the State of Illinois as well as the ...

4. St. Peter Sandstone - Wikipedia

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   The St. Peter Sandstone is an Ordovician geological formation. It belongs to the Chazyan stage of the Champlainian series in North American regional stratigraphy, equivalent to the late Darriwilian global stage. This sandstone originated as a sheet of sand in clear, shallow water near the shore of a Paleozoic sea and consists of fine-to-medium ...

5. Buffalo Rock State Park - Wikipedia

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   Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Buffalo Rock State Park & Effigy Tumuli is an Illinois state park on 298 acres (121 ha) in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States. The park sits across the Illinois River from Starved Rock State Park, just south of the Illinois and Michigan Canal trail. According to legend, it was once used as a "blind ...

6. Starved Rock Lock and Dam - Wikipedia

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   1,310 ft (400 m) Width (base) 33 ft (10 m) Spillway type. Controlled. Starved Rock Lock and Dam, also known as Lock and Dam No. 6, is a lock and dam facility managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers along the Illinois River, near Starved Rock. It is part of the Illinois Waterway and was constructed between 1926 and 1933.

7. Ottawa, Illinois - Wikipedia

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   Ottawa is known as the scenic gateway to Starved Rock State Park, the most popular state park in Illinois, with some 2 million visitors per year. The Fox River, which flows through communities like Elgin and Aurora, empties into the Illinois in downtown Ottawa. Ottawa is also home to one of the largest skydiving operations in the country ...

8. National Register of Historic Places listings in LaSalle ...

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   Starved Rock State Park, west of Illinois Route 178 41°19′10″N 89°01′16″W  /  41.31944°N 89.02111°W  / 41.31944; -89.02111  ( Little Beaver Utica

9. Trail of the Whispering Giants - Wikipedia

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   Ottawa. Welcome Center Illinois: 13 feet Ho-Ma-Sjah-Nah-Zhee-Ga 62 [130] 1989 Utica. Starved Rock State Park. Illinois: Oak: 20 feet Chief Walks with the Wind 63 [131] 1989, September Cherokee. Museum of the Cherokee Indian. North Carolina: Sequoia [132] 22 feet Sequoyah: 64 [133] 1989 Concord "Buffalo Ranch" (defunct) [134] North Carolina: 20 ...