Iroquois River (Indiana-Illinois)
The Iroquois River is a 103-mile-long (166 km) tributary of the Kankakee River in the Central Corn Belt Plains of northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois in the United States. It was named for the Iroquois people. Via the Kankakee and Illinois rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
The Iroquois River in Newton County, Indiana.
Junction of the Iroquois River (left) with the Kankakee River at Aroma Park, Illinois
Junction of the Iroquois River (left) with the Newton County Fair grounds in Kentland, Indiana By Andrew Spiker
The Kankakee River is a tributary of the Illinois River, approximately 133 miles (214 km) long, in the Central Corn Belt Plains of northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois in the United States. At one time, the river drained one of the largest wetlands in North America and furnished a significant portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. Significantly altered from its original channel, it flows through a primarily rural farming region of reclaimed cropland, south of Lake Michigan.
View of the river from Kankakee, Illinois, near Cobb Park
Sandy shore along the Kankakee River, three miles (4.8 km) west of Illinois–Indiana state line
Fisherman beside dam on the Kankakee River at Momence, Illinois, on the north bank, looking southwest
Headwaters of the Kankakee (US 20/US 31 at Prairie Avenue exit)