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Kaskaskia is a village in Randolph County and is considered the oldest permanent community in Illinois, founded in 1703 by the Kaskaskia people together with French Jesuits and settlers near the confluence of the Kaskaskia and Mississippi rivers.

The Church of the Immaculate Conception in Kaskaskia traces its origins to a mission established by Father Jacques Marquette in 1675.

In the 18th century Kaskaskia grew into the largest and most important French colonial settlement in the Illinois Country, with a peak population of about 7,000.

On July 4, 1778, George Rogers Clark and his Virginia militia captured Kaskaskia from the British during the Revolutionary War, and residents rang the church bell in celebration; that bell is still known as the "Liberty Bell of the West."

In 1803, Lewis and Clark stopped at Kaskaskia to gather supplies and recruited about a dozen U.S. soldiers from Fort Kaskaskia to join their expedition to the Pacific.

Kaskaskia became the capital of the Illinois Territory in 1809, and when Illinois entered the Union in 1818 it served as the state's first capital until the capital moved to Vandalia in 1819.

Illinois's first newspaper, the Illinois Herald, was published in Kaskaskia in 1814.

The Great Flood of 1881 destroyed much of the original town and shifted the Mississippi River into the channel of the Kaskaskia River, leaving Kaskaskia on an island west of the river's main channel.

Because of that shift, Kaskaskia is the only populated place in Illinois located west of the Mississippi River, and it can be reached by land only through Missouri, by a bridge from St. Mary, Missouri.

The 1993 flood once again submerged Kaskaskia Island and forced residents to flee, continuing the village's long history of flooding.