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ABSTRACT. The Valparaiso lakes include a moraine chain that separated the high beach ridge of geological Lake Chicago from the Kankakee River of the Illinois River drainage. Only a single historical fish collection was made in any of the Valparaiso lakes prior to 1950, but the Department of Natural Resources has conducted surveys from the mid-1960s until present in Flint, Long, Loomis, Spectacle, and Wauhob lakes. Species diversity in the lakes is relatively low and is comprised of 34 species in 10 families. Three exotic species, including Carassius auratus, Cyprinus carpio, and Ctenopharyngodon idella, have invaded the lakes. The most diverse families in the Valparaiso ...