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Starved Rock State Park, west of Illinois Route 178 [7 41°19′10″N 89°01′16″W / 41.31944°N 89.02111°W / 41.31944; -89.02111 ( Little Beaver Utica
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 any Illinois state park.
WLWF (96.5 FM), branded "96.5 The Wolf", is a radio station broadcasting a country music format.Licensed to Marseilles, Illinois, United States, the station serves the LaSalle-Peru market in the heart of Starved Rock Country.
Named in honor of 17th century Illinois valley explorer, the Sieur de La Salle, City boundaries extend from the Illinois River and Illinois and Michigan Canal to a mile north of Interstate 80 and from the city of Peru on the west to the village of North Utica on the east. Starved Rock State Park is located approximately 5 mi (8 km) to the east ...
This village proved to be unsustainable in size. La Salle and Henri de Tonti also established Fort Saint Louis on the butte now called Starved Rock across the river, where a village near the rock's base called Hotel Plaza developed. The inhabitants of the Grand Village largely dispersed under pressure from invading Iroquois bands (see, Beaver ...
WLPO (1220 AM) is a radio station licensed to LaSalle, Illinois covering Northern Illinois, including LaSalle, Ottawa, and Princeton from the heart of Starved Rock Country. The station features news and talk in conjunction with a classic rock format. WLPO-AM/FM is ranked #6 in the market ratings.
There, La Salle named the Mississippi basin La Louisiane [28] in honor of Louis XIV and claimed it for France. [29] [30] During 1682–83, La Salle, with Henry de Tonti, established Fort Saint-Louis of Illinois at Starved Rock on the Illinois River to protect and hold the region for France. [31] La Salle then returned to Montreal and later, to ...
On March 1, 1680, La Salle set off on foot for Fort Frontenac for supplies, [15] leaving Henri de Tonti to hold Fort Crèvecoeur in Illinois. [17] On his return trip up the Illinois River, La Salle concluded that Starved Rock might provide an ideal location for another fortification and sent word downriver to Tonti regarding this idea.