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  2. Moraine View State Recreation Area - Wikipedia

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    This moraine was produced by the Wisconsin glaciation, about 70,000 to 10,000 years before present. Moraine View SRA is the headwaters for Salt Creek, a major tributary of the Sangamon River, one of the largest rivers in central Illinois. The northeastern face of the same moraine, outside the state recreation area, is the headwaters of the main ...

  3. Valparaiso Moraine - Wikipedia

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    Where the Des Plaines River bends to the west and forms the Illinois River, the moraine angles south and east, continuing along I-294 towards Chicago Heights. In this area, the moraine has widened out towards the south and east, becoming a broad plain covering large portions of Will and Kankakee counties. Turning eastward, the moraine enters ...

  4. File:Map highlighting Moraine Township, Lake County, Illinois ...

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  5. Moraine Township, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Moraine Township is a township in Lake County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census , its population was 34,129. [ 2 ] Moraine Township was originally called Deerfield Township, but the name was changed on October 29, 1998.

  6. Marseilles moraine - Wikipedia

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    The Marseilles moraine is a terminal moraine that encircles the southern tip of Lake Michigan in North America. It begins near Elgin, Illinois , and extends south and west of Chicago metropolitan area , turning eastward 30 miles (48 km) to 40 miles (64 km) south of the lake in Kankakee and Iroqouis counties, entering Indiana .

  7. Illinois River - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois: Inoka Siipiiwi [4]) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River at approximately 273 miles (439 km) in length. Located in the U.S. state of Illinois , [ 5 ] the river has a drainage basin of 28,756.6 square miles (74,479 km 2 ). [ 6 ]

  8. File:Map of Illinois highlighting Lake County.svg - Wikipedia

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    More than 100 pages use this file. The following list shows the first 100 pages that use this file only. A full list is available.. Antioch, Illinois; Antioch Township, Illinois

  9. Lake Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The edge of the retreating glacier formed moraines, the Park Moraine in present-day Illinois and the Lake Borders Moraine in Indiana and Michigan. [ 4 ] Early Lake Chicago at the edge of the ice sheet, near the head of the Chicago Outlet River, lower left Map of Glacial lakes Whittlesey, Saginaw and Chicago, based on the USGS Report of 1915 ...