# List of rivers of Illinois

This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Illinois:

## By drainage basin
### Gulf of Mexico

* Mississippi River
** Ohio River
*** Lusk Creek
*** Saline River
*** Wabash River
**** Little Wabash River
***** Skillet Fork
***** Elm River
***** Fox River
***** Salt Creek
**** Bonpas Creek
**** Embarras River (Illinois)
***** North Fork Embarras River
***** Little Embarras River
**** Little Vermilion River
**** Vermilion River
***** Middle Fork Vermilion River
***** Salt Fork Vermilion River
****** Saline Branch
******* Boneyard Creek
** Cache River
*** Cypress Creek
** Big Muddy River
*** Beaucoup Creek
*** Little Muddy River
*** Casey Creek (Casey Fork)
** Marys River
*** Little Marys River
** Kaskaskia River
*** Shoal Creek
*** West Okaw River
** Palmer Creek
** Wood River
** Illinois River
*** Macoupin Creek
*** Big Sandy Creek
*** La Moine River
*** Sangamon River
**** Salt Creek
**** Spring Creek
**** Sugar Creek
***** Lick Creek
*** Spoon River
*** Mackinaw River
**** Little Mackinaw River
**** Panther Creek
***** Red River
*** Big Bureau Creek
*** Little Vermilion River
*** Vermilion River
**** Rooks Creek
*** Fox River
**** Indian Creek
**** Somonauk Creek
**** Flint Creek
*** Mazon River
*** Des Plaines River
**** DuPage River
**** Salt Creek
***** Addison Creek
**** Buffalo Creek
**** Hickory Creek
**** Mill Creek
**** Indian Creek
***** Seavey Drainage Ditch
*** Kankakee River
**** Rock Creek
**** Iroquois River
** Henderson Creek
** Edwards River
** Rock River
*** Green River
*** Pine Creek
*** Kyte River
*** Leaf River
*** Stillman Creek
*** Kishwaukee River
**** Killbuck Creek
**** South Branch Kishwaukee River
***** Owens Creek
***** East Branch South Branch Kishwaukee River
**** Beaver Creek
**** Piscasaw Creek
***** Mokeler Creek
**** Coon Creek
**** Rush Creek
**** North Branch Kishwaukee River
*** Pecatonica River
**** Sugar River
**** Yellow Creek
** Plum River
** Apple River
** Galena River
** Sinsinawa River
** Little Menominee River
** Menominee River

### Gulf of St. Lawrence

* Lake Michigan
** Waukegan River
** Chicago River
*** North Branch Chicago River
**** Skokie River
*** South Branch Chicago River
**** Bubbly Creek or South Fork South Branch Chicago River
** Calumet River
*** Grand Calumet River
*** Little Calumet River
**** Midlothian Creek
**** Thorn Creek
***** Butterfield Creek

## Alphabetically

* Addison Creek
* Apple River
* Beaucoup Creek
* Beaver Creek
* Big Bureau Creek
* Big Muddy River
* Boneyard Creek
* Bonpas Creek
* Bubbly Creek
* Buffalo Creek
* Butterfield Creek
* Cache River
* Calumet River
* Casey Creek, also known as Casey Fork
* Chicago River
* Coon Creek
* Cypress Creek
* Des Plaines River
* DuPage River
* East Branch South Branch Kishwaukee River
* Edwards River
* Elm River
* Embarras River (Illinois)
* Fox River (Illinois River tributary), northern Illinois
* Fox River (Little Wabash tributary), southern Illinois
* Galena River
* Grand Calumet River
* Green River
* Henderson Creek
* Hickory Creek
* Illinois River
* Indian Creek
* Iroquois River
* Jackson Creek
* Kankakee River
* Kaskaskia River
* Killbuck Creek
* Kishwaukee River
* Kyte River
* La Moine River
* Leaf River
* Lick Creek
* Little Calumet River
* Little Embarras River
* Little Mackinaw River
* Little Marys River
* Little Menominee River
* Little Muddy River
* Little Vermilion River (Illinois River tributary)
* Little Vermilion River (Wabash River tributary)
* Little Wabash River
* Lusk Creek
* Mackinaw River
* Macoupin Creek
* Marys River
* Mazon River
* Menominee River
* Middle Fork Vermilion River
* Mississippi River
* Mokeler Creek
* North Branch Chicago River
* North Branch Kishwaukee River
* North Fork Embarras River
* Ohio River
* Owens Creek
* Palmer Creek (Columbia, IL)
* Panther Creek (Mackinaw watershed)
* Pecatonica River
* Pine Creek
* Piscasaw Creek
* Plum River
* Red River
* Rock Creek
* Rock River
* Rush Creek
* Saline Branch
* Saline River
* Salt Creek (Des Plaines River tributary)
* Salt Creek (Little Wabash River tributary)
* Salt Creek (Sangamon River tributary)
* Salt Fork Vermilion River
* Sangamon River
* Shoal Creek
* Sinsinawa River
* Skillet Fork
* Skokie River
* Somonauk Creek
* South Branch Chicago River
* South Branch Kishwaukee River
* Spoon River
* Stillman Creek
* Sugar Creek
* Sugar River
* Thorn Creek
* Tyler Creek (Illinois) (not to be confused with a creek of the same in Oregon)
* Vermilion River (Illinois River tributary)
* Vermilion River (Wabash River tributary)
* Wabash River
* West Okaw River
* Wood River
* Yellow Creek