Tiatiki

Tiatiki is an early name for the Kankakee River, which winds westward through a broad country of marshes and prairie. It joins the Des Plaines to form the Illinois River and so belongs to the Mississippi watershed. Near its eastern headwaters, a carrying place connects the river with the Saint Joseph River and Lake Michigan. Indigenous travelers and French missionaries used this passage between the Great Lakes and the Illinois country, moving canoes and supplies across the low divide.