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Powerton Lake State Fish & Wildlife Area
Come visit Powerton Lake State Fish & Wildlife Area in Pekin, IL
Powerton Lake is a 1,426 acre lake built on the floodplain of the Illinois River in 1971 by Commonwealth Edison Company as a cooling reservoir for the fossil-fuel plant and opened to the public in 1983. Powerton has all three of the most popular catfish.
