A freak grub infestation has laid waste to roughly one-third of Welles Park’s 15 acres in Lincoln Square. The scope of the destruction which the Chicago Park District is working to address is so out of the ordinary, even experts say they’re stunned.
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted Oct. 14 to change a racially insensitive name of a creek that runs through Ladd and DePue in eastern Bureau County.
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DEPUE, Ill. (AP) Efforts to change the roughly 200-year-old racist name of a creek in northern Illinois have gained traction. An 11-mile (18-kilometer) waterway in the DePue area was named Negro Creek after the DePue area’s first Black settler built a cabin at the mouth of the creek in 1829, according to the The (Peoria) Journal Star .