sentences:  White Pines Forest State Park is located in what was once a part of the Sauk leader Black Hawk's territory and encompasses an area once known as White Pines Woods.White Pines State Park nearly became an Illinois State Park as early as 1903, when the state established its first state park at Fort Massac.Members of the Oregon, Illinois Woman's Council started the process by lobbying the Illinois legislature to set aside White Pines Woods as a state park.