Little Chicago was a suqatter's camp built during the 1930's. A family who had once lived in RC came back from Chicago during the depression. The settled in Sec 4 in the valley of Degoinia Creek. The farmer who owned the land let them stay, so they wrote to relatives in Chicago and others came. By 1936 all these related families moved to Rookwood or Chester.
Nothing remains' of the squatter village.
Jone's Creek is actually a creek where Emsley Jones settled in 1804. In 1805 he got into a fight with a man named Reed which he killed. Jones was arrested, convicted and hung in Kaskaskia for the murder. Although he was died the creek kept his name.