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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 .
Shabbona is located at (41.767381, -88.874677 Shabbona Lake State Park is located nearby. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Shabbona has a total area of 1.28 square miles (3.32 km 2 ), of which 1.28 square miles (3.32 km 2 ) (or 99.92%) is land and 0.00 square miles (0.00 km 2 ) (or 0.08%) is water.
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."
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 .
For example, DeKalb County contains a 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) forest preserve system [citation needed] and a 1,500-acre (6.1 km 2) state park (Shabbona Lake State Park); within DeKalb County, the DeKalb Park District in the City of DeKalb has a 700-acre (2.8 km 2) park system.
Shabbona Grove is an unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. Shabbona Grove is located on the south edge of Shabbona Lake State Park , 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south-southeast of Shabbona .
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.
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