Shabbona Lake State Park
Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park on in Shabbona Township, DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. Shabbona Lake is a man-made lake created in 1975 by damming the (Big) Indian Creek, a tributary of the Fox River. Its name derives from the Potawatomi leader Shabbona.
Seventy miles west of Chicago, off U.S. 30, urban landscape gives way to of rolling prairie and a man-made fishing lake.
On March 21, 2025, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed legislation authorizing the transfer of ownership of the park to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.