The park was named after a Native American word[clarification needed] meaning "the meeting of the waters".

[citation needed] It lies adjacent to the confluence of the Dupage, Des Plaines, and Kankakee Rivers.

Near Channahon, at the junction of the DesPlaines and Kankakee Rivers, lies one of the most important archaeological sites in America.

This went on successively so that when the mound was sliced down the middle the layers of strata separated the ages all the way back to 2000 years before the Hopewell arrived.

It is also significant that this find in Channahon, Il proves an apparent change in the head form between the lowest burials than those above.