Board members said Misty Vermaat is a distant relative of Simeon H. West, a spiritualist who arrived in the county in the early 1850s and who erected a statue in LeRoy to a Kickapoo chief he saw in a ...

LINCOLN — As Kickapoo Creek Park Ranger John Fink and I crossed the suspension bridge over the water that gives the park its name, a barred owl hooted in the distance and other birds provided a ...

BRACKETTVILLE – The crack started at the floor. It scarred the rock face, up and up, across the ceiling and down the far wall. “That's a fault,” our guide informed us, as he detailed the millions of ...

During the month of April, the bird watching station at Kickapoo Creek Park will be manned periodically by experienced bird watchers to help visitors identify the many birds that visit the nearby ...

DANVILLE – Employees' interest in saving a local state park is behind a fundraiser set for Wednesday at a local department store. Elder-Beerman will host Kickapoo Day from noon to 9 p.m. to benefit ...

DANVILLE — Three environmental groups have raised concerns about the proposed expansion of a mountain bike trail at Kickapoo State Park. Prairie Rivers Network, the Illinois Sierra Club and the ...

LE ROY, Ill., June 14 -- When Marguerite Salazar was a girl she heard stories about her tribe's life in central Illinois and the forced relocation of the Kickapoo in the 1800s from her grandparents ...