Located a short distance off Interstate 74 (take exit 206), a few miles from Danville, Kickapoo is among the few state parks in Illinois that offers places to scuba dive and mountain bike. The roads ...

DANVILLE – The governor's plan to close Kickapoo State Park this year has sparked a groundswell of protests among area residents and visitors alike – including one from an 11-year-old girl. Ryce ...

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 ...

Between 300 and 400 people gathered Friday night at Kickapoo Landing in Kickapoo State Park to discuss saving the park from its Nov. 1 closure. Tod Satterthwaite, operator of Kickapoo Landing, said ...

Nov. 21—OAKWOOD — Illinois Department of Natural Resources officials are reviewing a new report regarding mountain bike trail plans at Kickapoo State Park, and having internal discussions on the issue ...

A map made in 1818, the year Illinois became a state, listed the site as the Grand Village of the Kickapoo. A surveyor counted 2,000 to 3,000 Kickapoo and more than 5,000 graves on one visit in 1824.

About: Where in Illinois can you go running or hiking, canoeing, fishing for trout, camping, hunting or scuba diving -- all against a backdrop of breathtaking natural beauty? Kickapoo State Recreation ...

Annamae Dziallo has fond memories of the Vermilion River. She remembers taking trips to Kickapoo State Park, skipping rocks on the river and bonding with members of Students for Environmental Concerns ...

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 ...