The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised to the tribe’s leader 175 years ago but ...

People in Illinois who don’t fish or hunt aren’t likely to be as disturbed as the rest of us about the state handing over ...

More than 175 years after their reservation in Illinois was illegally sold at auction, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is ...

The land in southern Dekalb County once belonged to Chief Shab-eh-nay of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation but was seized ...

When he was a kid, Casey Brown remembers traveling from his home in Wisconsin to the University of Illinois in Champaign to protest the then-use of its mascot, Chief Illiniwek. Brown, a member of ...

More than 175 years ago, in the 1830s, Chief Shab-eh-nay left his Reservation in northern Illinois to visit his family in Kansas. While he was away, the U.S. government illegally auctioned off more ...

Nearly one year after the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation became the first federally recognized Native American nation in Illinois, the state will transfer ownership of Shabbona Lake State Park to ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised to the tribe’s leader 175 years ago but stolen by the federal government 20 years later.