Let’s be honest. The U.S. government stole the DeKalb County land belonging to the Prairie Band Potawatomi tribe in the 1830s. At long last, some of that land is being returned.

DEKALB COUNTY, Ill — More than 175 years after their reservation in Illinois was illegally sold at auction, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is now in line to get their land back. Gov. JB ...

SPRINGFIELD - Nearly two centuries after losing its reservation in Illinois in a land sale that most people now concede was illegal, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation could soon get its land back ...

The land in southern Dekalb County once belonged to Chief Shab-eh-nay of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation but was seized and sold by the U.S. when the chief was visiting relatives.

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.

The Democratic Party platform included a land acknowledgment recognizing the U.S. was “built on Indigenous homelands" that were forcibly taken by the government.

The land, which includes the Chief Shabbona Forest Preserve, Indian Oaks Country Club and some privately-owned farmland, is all part of an old reservation that once belonged to Potawatomi Chief ...

I framed this land acknowledgment in reverse chronology because I wanted to start with what I know, with what I see every day. The physical appearance of the land has changed so substantially that it ...

Potawatomi land transfer clears General Assembly. Amy Graham-McCarty, Commercial-News, Danville, Ill. Sat, January 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM UTC. 5 min read.

SPRINGFIELD — More than 175 years after their reservation in Illinois was illegally sold at auction, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is now in line to get their land back. Gov. JB Pritzker ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Nearly two centuries after losing its reservation in Illinois in a land sale that most people now concede was illegal, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation could soon get its ...