Hancock: Potawatomi land transfer clears General Assembly

Joseph “Zeke” Rupnick, chairman of the Kansas-based Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, waits outside the Illinois House chamber while lawmakers consider a bill to give the tribe ownership of the 1,500-acre Shabbona Lake and State Park in DeKalb County. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)

By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD – Nearly two centuries after losing its reservation in Illinois in a land sale that most people now concede was illegal, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation could soon get