Village of Indian Head Park

“Before the area, now known as Indian Head Park, became a village, it was one of the last camp sites of the Native American tribe, the Potawatomie. Known as Lyonsville in the 1830s, the area was near the center of what was then Cook County, which encompassed the entire area of today’s Cook County, all of present-day DuPage County, and parts of Will and Lake Counties. Because of its central location, the first Democratic Convention in Cook County was held in the area in 1835. Also of note is the fact that the Lyonsville Congregational Church, at the corner of Joliet and Wolf Roads, was once a stop on the Underground Railroad during the Civil War of 1861 to 1865.”