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# Favorite Places: Starved Rock
- URL: https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/2013-6-12-favorite-places-starved-rock/
- Published: 2013-06-12T14:13:54.000Z
- Updated: 2013-06-12T14:13:54.000Z
- Author: CJ Chilvers

In 1769, a group of Illini were chased up a butte by Ottawa and Potawatomi. They remained there, under siege, until they starved.

Ever since, this system of canyons and peaks, created by a freak flood 15,000 years ago, has been known as Starved Rock.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/93/30/933059b9-0a90-40a6-8ecc-04cdf152178d/content/images/content/v1/5fb175dc7c803320180cf83a/1609580819712-2XPKRKJBP6Z4UY9JMDIV/image-asset.jpeg)

[Starved Rock](http://www.starvedrockstatepark.org/?ref=cjchilvers.com) has long been a destination for Chicago-area landscape photographers (only 90-minutes from the city), due to its waterfalls rivers and canyons, in an area of the midwest that is typically flat.

![A bend in the Illinois River, now closed to the public](https://storage.ghost.io/c/93/30/933059b9-0a90-40a6-8ecc-04cdf152178d/content/images/content/v1/5fb175dc7c803320180cf83a/1609580821382-CT2W0QC8K37KQD9BPRUZ/image-asset.jpeg)

A bend in the Illinois River, now closed to the public

![Atop Starved Rock](https://storage.ghost.io/c/93/30/933059b9-0a90-40a6-8ecc-04cdf152178d/content/images/content/v1/5fb175dc7c803320180cf83a/1609580823830-B6M9QCMZZYGSD0PNHBLV/image-asset.jpeg)

Atop Starved Rock

![Atop Starved Rock](https://storage.ghost.io/c/93/30/933059b9-0a90-40a6-8ecc-04cdf152178d/content/images/content/v1/5fb175dc7c803320180cf83a/1609580825630-MRCH81YKUOZ1PU75EWFR/image-asset.jpeg)

Atop Starved Rock

![ ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/93/30/933059b9-0a90-40a6-8ecc-04cdf152178d/content/images/content/v1/5fb175dc7c803320180cf83a/1609580827414-FMS6P8TQOET3ECQU81VS/image-asset.jpeg)