Illinois Rivers
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Illinois River
The Illinois River begins at the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers and flows to the Mississippi.
299 milesRock River
The Rock River flows through Wisconsin and Illinois. It was known as Sinnissippi, meaning rocky waters.
133 milesKankakee River
The Kankakee flows through northwest Indiana and northeast Illinois and is a tributary of the Illinois River.
202 milesFox River
The Fox River runs from southeast Wisconsin to Ottawa, Illinois, where it joins the Illinois River.
325 milesKaskaskia River
The Kaskaskia is the second largest river system in Illinois.
246 milesSangamon River
The Sangamon is a principal tributary of the Illinois River in central Illinois. It runs through Decatur and past Springfield.
133 milesDes Plaines River
The Des Plaines flows south through southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois and meets the Kankakee River west of Channahon to form the Illinois River.
156 milesBig Muddy River
The Big Muddy is a river in southern Illinois that joins the Mississippi just south of Grand Tower.
195 milesEmbarras River
The Embarras, pronounced EM-brah, is a tributary of the Wabash River in southeastern Illinois.
240 milesLittle Wabash River
The Little Wabash is a tributary of the Wabash River in east-central and southeastern Illinois. It is the third largest tributary of the Wabash after the White River and the Embarras River.
147 milesSpoon River
The Spoon is a tributary of the Illinois River in west-central Illinois. It drains agricultural prairie country between Peoria and Galesburg.
130 milesMackinaw River
The Mackinaw is a tributary of the Illinois River. Its watershed covers about 1,136 square miles of some of the most productive agricultural land in the United States.
63.4 milesKishwaukee River
The Kishwaukee, locally called the Kish, is a tributary of the Rock River. Its name comes from the Potawatomi word for river of the sycamore.
194 milesPecatonica River
The Pecatonica is a tributary of the Rock River in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Its name comes from Algonquian words meaning slow water.
103 milesIroquois River
The Iroquois is a tributary of the Kankakee River in northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois.