In this note, we investigate some properties of local Kneser graphs defined in [Janos Korner, Concetta Pilotto, Gabor Simonyi, Local chromatic number and sperner capacity, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 95 (1) (2005) 101-117]. In this regard, as a generalization of the Erdos-Ko-Rado theorem, we characterize the maximum independent sets of local Kneser graphs. Next, we provide an upper bound for their chromatic number. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.