It seems a decadeslong quest for recognition is at last making ground. “I know that a lot of the pushback was, ‘Well, there’s no reservation there in Illinois, there will never be any ...

Illinois is now home to a federally recognized tribal nation after the U.S. Department of the Interior placed portions of the Shab-eh-nay Reservation into trust, according to a statement Friday fro… ...

The club, which was founded in 1980 by former owner Bill Fitzgerald, is the first music venue or nightclub in Illinois to earn historical recognition, according to Tuesday’s announcement.

Illinois returns nearly 1,500 acres of stolen land to state's first federally recognized tribe The land in southern Dekalb County once belonged to Chief Shab-eh-nay of the Prairie Band Potawatomi ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ill. — Illinois is once again home to a federally recognized tribal nation, following a major announcement by the U.S. government. The Department of the Interior… ...