COLLINSVILLE, Ill. — After nearly 50 years, a piece of Collinsville history has finally returned home.
“King Kahok,” a longtime symbol tied to Collinsville’s Kahok identity, was returned after a 17-hour, nearly 1,000-mile journey to retrieve it from a veterans post in Michigan, bringing the end to a decades-old prank.
The effort to get him back started when Ted Jackson found an old note that said, “We have your Indian,” a clue that led them to VFW Post 701 in Lansing, Michigan. There, the mystery was confirmed: King Kahok had been taken in 1977 as part of a prank between two VFW posts, carried out by World War II veterans…