Editing Momence, Illinois (section)

==History==
First known as "Lower Crossing", Momence was named after a local [[Potawatomi]], Isadore Moness.  Momence was first [[plat]]ted by Dr. Hiram Todd in 1846.<ref>Houde, Mary Jean; John Klasey (1968) ''Of the People, a Popular History of Kankakee County'', General Printing Co, Chicago, p. 30.</ref> It is located on the [[Kankakee River]]. In July, 1893, a crew paid for by an appropriation from the neighboring State of Indiana cut a shallow channel not quite a meter deep through a [[limestone]] ledge running just east of Momence, which had for millennia partially blocked and restricted the flow of the Kankakee River, making up to that point the [[Grand Kankakee Marsh]], then the nation's largest inland [[wetland]], possible. The increased river flow, while doing little for the citizens of Illinois, drained thousands of acres of Indiana wetlands, permitting them to be profitably farmed, while destroying most of the Marsh.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/a58e16dd606c4d72ba9dba304ba8cdb8|title = Looking Back: Murdering the Grand Kankakee Marsh|website = [[Associated Press]]|date = 23 February 2019}}</ref>