The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation of Kansas says an 1829 treaty it signed with the U.S. government still is valid, and 1,280 acres in and around Shabbona Lake State Park are rightfully theirs.

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When Gov. JB Pritzker in late March signed legislation that will give Shabbona Lake State Park to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, this wasn’t just acknowledging Native people once lived on ...

Gov. JB Pritzker has signed legislation ceding to the tribe ownership of the 1,500-acre Shabbona Lake State Park in DeKalb County. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock) Pritzker signs ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation Friday authorizing the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to hand over to the tribe the ownership title to Shabbona Lake State Park, a 1,500-acre tract in ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation Friday authorizing the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to hand over to the tribe the ownership title to Shabbona Lake State Park, a 1,500-acre tract in ...

A dam made in the 1970s to create Shabbona Lake is seen at the southern edge of Shabbona Lake State Park in 2022, in Shabbona. A law signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker has transferred the park back to ...

Gov. JB Pritzker has signed legislation ceding to the tribe ownership of the 1,500-acre Shabbona Lake State Park in DeKalb County. More than 175 years after their reservation in Illinois was illegally ...