Big Foot Prairie, Illinois
Big Foot Prairie is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in McHenry County, Illinois. It was named a CDP prior to the 2020 census which showed a population of 65. It is located in Chemung Township. Big Foot Prairie is located on U.S. Route 14, north of Harvard. The community originally extended into Walworth County, Wisconsin, where there is a neighborhood of the same name in the Town of Walworth. History. The community is named for Big Foot, a Potawatomi leader who resided on nearby Kishwauketoe (today Geneva Lake, Wisconsin) until his band was forcibly  removed by the United States in 1836. It once had a post office, which opened on May 15, 1848. Demographics. 2020 census. "Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race."