Site of Indian village saved for the sifting

Chicago Sun-Times | August 11, 1991| | Copyright

"The Grand Village of the Illinois" will not go condo after all.

The only new digs on the spot where Europeans first met native Americans in Illinois will be archeologists' excavations.

A milelong, 134-acre tract near Utica on the Illinois River was saved from bulldozing last month by an out-of-court settlement just before a court fight was to begin.

"Illinois really began here," said archeologist David Keene, of Chicago-based Archeological Research Inc., who was active in saving the land for future archeology.

"This is where (Father Jacques) Marquette and (Louis) Jolliet first met ...

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