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Squaw Lake renamed Aanikegamaa Lake

On Sept. 8, the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced the Board on Geographic Names (BGN) had voted on the final replacement names for nearly 650 geographic features with the

Cook County waterbody renamed to remove Native American slur

The shallow water body near Palos Park, now Cherry Hill Woods Sloughs, may be off the beaten path, but it represents a nationwide effort to remove derogatory words from place names.

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