Shabbona Lake State Park
State park in DeKalb County, Illinois
41°44′22″N 88°51′08″W / 41.73944°N 88.85222°W / 41.73944; -88.85222[1]
Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park on 1,550 acres (630 ha) in Shabbona Township, DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. Shabbona Lake is a man-made lake created in 1975 by damming the (Big) Indian Creek, a tributary of the Fox River. Its name derives from the Potawatomi leader Shabbona.[2]
Seventy miles west of Chicago, off U.S. 30, urban landscape gives way to 1,550 acres (630 ha) of rolling prairie and a 318.8 acres (129.0 ha) man-made fishing lake.[3]
References
- "Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area". Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
- USGS. "Shabbona Lake, USGS Shabbona Grove (IL) Quad". TopoQuest. Retrieved July 5, 2008.
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