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Fox river at Montgomery Dam in Montgomery, Illinois Fox river north of Wedron, IL The Fox River in Downtown Batavia facing north at the Peace Bridge. The river enters Illinois where it widens into a large area of interconnected lakes known as the Chain O'Lakes. Fox Lake is the largest village in this area.
The Montgomery Dam is a gravity dam on the Fox River in Montgomery, Illinois.The dam was built for flood control and navigation in 1969 as a part of the Stratton project [1] dam system [2] which was designed to keep the river navagable from the Wisconsin border to the confluence with the Illinois River.
The Glen D. Palmer Dam is a 6-foot-high (1.8 m) dam across the Fox River in Yorkville, Illinois, about 35.9 miles (58.2 km) upstream from the confluence with the Illinois River, and 940 feet (366 m) upstream from the Route-47 bridge. The dam is named after the original manager of the State Game Farm, formerly located in Yorkville. [1]
The Dam maintains the Fox Chain O'Lakes Pool levels while the Lock provides recreational passage between the Fox Chain O'Lakes in northern Illinois, and the Fox River for recreational watercraft from May through October and is closed for the winter season each year from November 1 through April 30. An average of 17,000 boats pass through the ...
Indian Creek is part of the Lower Fox River watershed. [4] [5] Indian Creek travels near the communities of Paw Paw (in Lee County), Shabbona and Rollo (in DeKalb County), and Earlville, Harding, Serena, and Baker (in LaSalle County). The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) shows 22 streams bearing the name Indian Creek in Illinois.
Fox River (Illinois River tributary), runs from Wisconsin into Illinois; Fox River (Little Wabash tributary), in Illinois; Fox River (Wabash tributary) in Illinois that is a tributary of the Wabash River near New Harmony, Indiana; Fox River (Michigan), a river in the Upper Peninsula; Fox River (Mississippi River), in Iowa and Missouri
The Chain O'Lakes, or simply "The Chain", is a waterway system in northeast Illinois composed of 15 lakes connected by the Fox River and man-made channels. Encompassing more than 7,100 acres (29 km 2 ) of water, 488 miles (785 km) of shoreline and 45 miles (72 km) of river, the Chain is the busiest inland recreational waterway per acre in the ...
The Fox Valley—also commonly known as the Fox River Valley—is a region centered on the Fox River of Northern Illinois, along the western edges of the Chicago metropolitan area. [1] The region extends from the village of Antioch , in far northern Illinois, to the city of Ottawa in the south. [ 1 ]