Not far from where a Potawatomi woman named Archange Ouilmette was awarded 1,280 acres of land by treaty in the 19th century—encompassing parts of present-day Wilmette and Evanston—her ...

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 ...

Illinois bill requires schools to get rid of Native American mascot imagery and names 00:25. Some 175 years after the U.S. government stole land from the chief of the Prairie Band Potawatomi ...

A judge’s ruling made June 18 allows the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation to proceed with a suit it’s pursuing against Jackson ...

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.

The land was given to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, only to be sold out from under them. Now, Gov. JB Pritzker has signed legislation to right that injustice. With a momentous decision to ...

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 ...

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 — 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.