Kickapoo State Recreation Area
Kickapoo State Recreation Area is a state park in Vermilion County in the U.S. state of Illinois and is in close proximity to Danville on Interstate 74 The area of the recreation area is 11.50 km ². The name probably comes from a Kickapoo settlement that once lay between the river branches of the Salt Fork Vermilion River and the Middle Fork Vermilion River. There, the Indian chief Kennekuk to have lived, after whom the Kennekuk Cove County Park has been named.
It is said that it is thanks to the initiative of Clint C. Tilton, a local newspaper editor and historian, that the Kickapoo State Park came into being in Vermilion County.
In the immediate vicinity there is also the Heron County Park.