The Kankakee River is a much abused and misused tributary. This stretch of water is a mere shadow of its former majesty. The Kankakee Marsh sprang from the Wisconsin glacier meltwater 24,000 years ago ...

Joe Zdziebko of Osceola held court Sunday at the 36th annual Voyageur Rendezvous at the Grand Kankakee Marsh Park in Hebron, telling tales of life as it once was here In Northwest Indiana in the ...

The Kankakee Valley Historical Society presents “Whatever Happened to the Kankakee Marsh?” The program explores how Northwest Indiana’s “Everglades of the North” was reduced to the Kankakee River ...

Long before scientists understood the benefits of wetlands, Hoosiers drained a wildlife Garden of Eden that stretched from western St. Joseph County to the Illinois line. The Grand Kankakee Marsh was ...

Less than a century ago, there was an area in the Midwest that resembled the swamplands of Florida's Everglades. Sometimes called the "Everglades of the North", The Grand Kankakee Marsh once saturated ...

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After the Kankakee Marsh was drained and channelized in 1918, it soon became undeniable the ecological disaster man had caused on Northwest Indiana. What once was known as the “Everglades of the North ...

This column originally ran Aug. 10, 2014. We bring it back since the Kankakee has just gained federal status as a National Water Trail. Once the chatty group of paddlers had left, I crept back onto ...

Trying to find 'Grand Kankakee Marsh: Everglades of the North' tonight? Here are a few quick details to keep in mind about the For Goodness Sake Productions, Lakeshore Public Television history flick.

Long before scientists understood the benefits of wetlands, Hoosiers drained a wildlife Garden of Eden that stretched from western St. Joseph County to the Illinois line. The Grand Kankakee Marsh was ...