Near Chief Shabbona County Forest Preserve 0.5 miles south of Preserve Road.
It was 1775, one year before the American Revolution that an Indian boy was born near the banks of the Kankakee River. A boy who would grow up to befriend the new nation's people. His Ottawa parents named him “Shab-eh-nay” (Shabbona), . . . — — Map (db m78301) HM
On East Comanche Avenue (Illinois Route 30) at Indian Road, on the right when traveling east on East Comanche Avenue.
In the early 1800's Shabbona was a principal chief of the Ottowa, Potawatomi, and Chippewa group of tribes which banded together to form "The Three Fires." Shabbona camped briefly in a large grove one-half mile south of here. He fought with the . . . — — Map (db m31672) HM
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