I'll accept the McLean info and confess surprise. <g> As for the original
Kaskaskia, I still see nothing to dispute the flood. I think my source is
the official 1968 state history but I can't find the book. It was something
along the lines of the move to Vandalia was timely because Kaskaskia flooded
a year after the move and totally wiped out the site of the original
capitol. I only remember it because it was made as a rather snotty remark
which I thought was inappropriate.