Kaskaskia – The Only Illinois Town West of the Mississippi River

Trivia
on November 12, 2000

Kaskaskia (pop. 33) is the only town in Illinois west of the Mississippi River. It was east of the Mississippi until a 1799 flood made the town-the territorial capital a decade later-an island, with water flowing on both sides. The Mississippi eventually chose the new, shorter eastern route, leaving the town on its west bank.

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