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2. Starved Rock State Park - Wikipedia

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   Starved Rock State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by the many canyons within its 2,630 acres (1,064 ha). Located just southeast of the village of Utica, in Deer Park Township, LaSalle County, Illinois, along the south bank of the Illinois River, the park hosts over two million visitors annually, the most for ...

3. Chester Weger - Wikipedia

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   Chester Otto Weger (born March 3, 1939) [1] is an American man who was convicted in 1961 of the murder of one of three women found slain at Starved Rock State Park the previous year. He was held at Pinckneyville Correctional Center and at one time was the longest serving inmate incarcerated by the State of Illinois as well as the third longest ...

4. Grand Village of the Illinois - Wikipedia

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   A prominent local landmark, Starved Rock, stands on the south bank of the river directly opposite the Grand Village site. Explorer La Salle founded a fort there to be near this village. Starved Rock is also a National Historic Landmark and is included in Starved Rock State Park.

5. This Peoria spot made the list of top Instagrammable places ...

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   The most Instagrammed spots in Illinois in 2024. 1. Starved Rock State Park (#starvedrock, #starvedrockstatepark, #starvedrockpark), with 156,740 hashtags on Instagram. The LaSalle County ...

6. Matthiessen State Park - Wikipedia

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   Matthiessen State Park. /  41.29556°N 89.02528°W  / 41.29556; -89.02528. Matthiessen State Park is an Illinois state park located a few miles south of the more famous Starved Rock State Park. The main entrances to both parks are located on Illinois State Route 178.

7. Starved Rock among Illinois' best places for hiking ... - AOL

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8. Starved Rock Lock and Dam - Wikipedia

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   1,310 ft (400 m) Width (base) 33 ft (10 m) Spillway type. Controlled. Starved Rock Lock and Dam, also known as Lock and Dam No. 6, is a lock and dam facility managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers along the Illinois River, near Starved Rock. It is part of the Illinois Waterway and was constructed between 1926 and 1933.

9. Kankakee Torrent - Wikipedia

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   Coordinates: 41°25′12″N 88°12′39″W. Sandstone cliff at Starved Rock State Park, carved by the force of the Kankakee Torrent some 19,000 years ago. The Kankakee Torrent was a catastrophic flood that occurred about 19,000 calibrated years ago [1] in the Midwestern United States. It resulted from a breach of moraines forming a large ...