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Shabbona Lake State Park. Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park on 1,550 acres (630 ha) in Shabbona Township, DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. Shabbona Lake is a man-made lake created in 1975 by damming the (Big) Indian Creek, a tributary of the Fox River. Its name derives from the Potawatomi leader Shabbona.
FIPS code. 17-68822. Wikimedia Commons. Shabbona, Illinois. Website. shabbona-il.com. Shabbona (/ ˈʃæˌbʌnə /) is a village in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. The population was 863 at the 2020 census, down from 925 at the 2010 census.
Shabbona was born around 1775 of the Odawa (Ottawa) tribe either on the Maumee River in Ohio, in Ontario or in a Native American village in Illinois. [2] [4] [5] Shabbona's own biography places his birth on the Kankakee River; "Shaubena, according to his statement, was born in the year 1775 or 1776, at an Indian village on the Kankakee River, now in Will county."
The monument, located 14 miles (23 km) north of Ottawa, Illinois, cost $700. [36] In 1902, the area was designated as Shabbona Park, and $5,000 was appropriated by the Illinois legislature for the erection and maintenance of a new monument. [36]
The Chief Shabbona Trail is a hiking, bicycling and canoeing trail, located between Joliet and Morris, Illinois. The Shabbona Trail is a part of the 61-mile (98 km) long National Park Service Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor. Hiking, bicycling and canoeing are free. The trail is open year-round.
Lincoln Park: 1,188 acres (481 ha) Chicago's largest city park. Located north of the Loop, this is one of the more distinctive parks in terms of geography, because while it is centrally located in the Lincoln Park community area, it spans many different neighborhoods on the north side. Marquette Park: Chicago Lawn: 315 acres (127 ha)
UTC-5 ( CDT) ZIP codes. 60518, 60530, 60550, 60556. FIPS code. 17-037-68835. Shabbona Township is one of nineteen townships in DeKalb County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,344 and it contained 600 housing units. [ 2] The township contains the Chief Shabbona Forest Preserve and Shabbona Lake State Park .
William W. Powers State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources on 580 acres (230 ha) in the Hegewisch community area of the City of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. [1] The area includes 419 acres (170 ha) of water in Wolf Lake that provides about 6 miles (10 km) of ...