It was also a site of trade, travel, gathering and healing for more than a dozen other Native tribes and is still home to over 100,000 tribal members in the state of Illinois.

Brown now lives in Illinois working for the collaborative, which is working to improve conditions for Native Americans in the Chicago area. The effort to restore 1,280 acres of reservation land in ...

But after passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 ... Rupnick said the tribe’s efforts to reestablish a reservation in Illinois began in 2006 when it purchased about 130 acres of farm land ...

It was also a site of trade, travel, gathering and healing for more than a dozen other Native tribes and is still home to over 100,000 tribal members in the state of Illinois. It is within ...

Nearly one year after the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation became the first federally recognized Native American nation ... Nation’s northern Illinois reservation into a public trust, marking ...