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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DANVILLE — The Vermilion County Highway Department announces that Kickapoo Park Road will be closed on Thursday to prepare for and place the asphalt pavement at the site. Traffic will be detoured ...

During the month of April, the bird watching station at Kickapoo Creek Park will be manned periodically by experienced bird watchers to help visitors identify the many birds that visit the nearby ...

LE ROY, Ill., June 14 -- When Marguerite Salazar was a girl she heard stories about her tribe's life in central Illinois and the forced relocation of the Kickapoo in the 1800s from her grandparents ...

DANVILLE, Ill. (WCIA) — The search for a missing 23-year-old swimmer in Vermilion County has ended with the recovery of his body. Jane McFadden, the Vermilion County Coroner, said the swimmer was ...

OAKWOOD, Ill. (WAND) — An 18-year-old is dead after drowning in Kickapoo State Park on Thursday evening. The Vermilion County Coroner identified the teen as Anreo X. Woods. According to the Vermilion ...

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 ...

The Kickapoo River in western Wisconsin gets its name from an Algonquin word that means "he who goes here, then there." I prefer a more literal translation, as in a river that pretty much kicked the ...

A woman driving near Kickapoo State Park recently found what she initially thought was a house cat injured and brought it ...