Shabbona_Lake_State_Park

Shabbona Lake State Park

Shabbona Lake State Park

State park in DeKalb County, Illinois

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.[2]

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Seventy miles west of Chicago, off U.S. 30, urban landscape gives way to 1,550 acres (630 ha) of rolling prairie and a 318.8 acres (129.0 ha) man-made fishing lake.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Shabbona Lake State Recreational Area
  2. [2]
    Hancock, Peter (March 2, 2024). "Native Tribe Seeks Return of Ancestral Land in DeKalb County". WTTW News.
  3. [3]
    "Parks". www.dnr.illinois.gov. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
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