‘State of New Illinois’ organization pushes to separate from Cook County
Down staters are leaving Chicago to make their own state, that’s the idea behind a nonprofit organization called New Illinois ...
Illinois returns nearly 1,500 acres of stolen land to state's first federally recognized tribe
The land in southern Dekalb County once belonged to Chief Shab-eh-nay of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation but was seized ...
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Potawatomi to reclaim tribal land in DeKalb County
More than 175 years after their reservation in Illinois was illegally sold at auction, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is ...