The U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted Oct. 14 to change a racially insensitive name of a creek that runs through Ladd and DePue in eastern Bureau County.
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DEPUE, Ill. (AP) Efforts to change the roughly 200-year-old racist name of a creek in northern Illinois have gained traction. An 11-mile (18-kilometer) waterway in the DePue area was named Negro Creek after the DePue area’s first Black settler built a cabin at the mouth of the creek in 1829, according to the The (Peoria) Journal Star .