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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Idaho (search)
rposing 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 Iroquois, the fort destroyed, and the garrison dispersed......1680 La Salle and Tonti, seeking the mouth of the Mississippi, desc
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Illinois, Kankakee, Kankakee County, Illinois (search)
Kankakee, Kankakee County, Illinois a town of 7,000 pop., on Kankakee River and the Chicago Branch of the Illinois Central Railroad, 56 miles from Chicago.
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Illinois, Wilmington, Will County, Illinois (search)
Wilmington, Will County, Illinois a town of 4,000 pop., on Kankakee River and the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad, 53 miles from Chicago. Some manufacturing done here.