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, they ascend the Illinois, making their way to Lake Michigan via the Desplaines and Chicago rivers......1673 Marquette, purposing to establish a mission among the Illinois Indians, makes a portage from the Chicago to the Desplaines, descends the Illinois River nearly to Utica, where he meets a large concourse of chiefs and warriors......April 8, 1675 Father Claude Allouez, successor to Marquette, who died May 18, 1675, enters the Chicago River on his way to the Indian mission......April, 1676 Robert Cavalier Sieur de la Salle, with Henry Tonti, Father Hennepin, and a party of thirty-three, descending the Kankakee and Illinois rivers, pass through Peoria Lake, Jan. 3, 1680, and erect Fort Crevecoeur on the east shore of the outlet......1680 Father Hennepin descends the Illinois from the fort to explore the upper Mississippi......Feb. 28, 1680 La Salle, returning from Montreal with supplies for Fort Crevecoeur, finds the town of the Illinois Indians burned by the Iroq