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October 20, 2008 (October 21, 2008)

Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 20, 2008

Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

Cave in Rock. Hardin. Village (1901) twenty-five miles southeast of Harrisburg. Named from the natural cave in the bluff along the Ohio River, a landmark for boatmen since the seventeenth […]

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October 17, 2008 (October 17, 2008)

Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 17, 2008

Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

Equality. Gallatin. Village (1851, 1872) ten miles east of Harrisburg. Founded about 1827 by Willis Hargrave, John Black, and Thornton Cum(m)ings. Formerly known as the Gallatin Salines, a tract of […]

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October 16, 2008 (October 16, 2008)

Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 16, 2008

Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

Shawneetown. Gallatin. City (1814, 1874) nineteen miles east of Harrisburg. Also Shawnee Township. Named from the Shawnee Tribe, the “southern people,” members of which migrated to the area from southern […]

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October 15, 2008 (October 30, 2008)

Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 15, 2008

Getting to know Champaign-Urbana Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

Savoy. Champaign. Village (1956) two miles south of Champaign. Named for Princess Clotilde of the Alpine Duchy, the House of Savoy, who visited Illinois in 1861 with her husband, Prince […]

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October 14, 2008

Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 14, 2008

Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

Lickskillet. Lickskillet is a popular (usually informal) place name, occurring at least a hundred times in the United States. The stories told to explain the name are remarkably similar, usually […]

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October 13, 2008

Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 13, 2008

Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

Golf. Cook. Village (1928). Named for the game of golf. The local story is that Albert J. Erling, president of the Milwaukee Road, would have the train stopped at this […]

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October 13, 2008 (October 13, 2008)

“Dime Novel Desperadoes” profiled in the Chicago Tribune

Illinois / regional

John Hallwas’s new book Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers was featured in the Chicago Tribune‘s October 11, 2008, “Illinois Style” column. “No books had been written about them; in the […]

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October 13, 2008

Just Landed: A bevy of new books

film Illinois / regional music new books

A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past few weeks: –Terrence Malick by Lloyd Michaels (October 20, 2008) –Health Culture in the Heartland, 1880-1980: An Oral History […]

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October 10, 2008

Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 10, 2008

Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

Goofy Ridge. Mason. Nine miles northeast of Havana. The origin of the name is unknown. According to a local story, the name dates from the Prohibition era of the 1920s, […]

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October 9, 2008

Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 9, 2008

Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

Wing. Livingston. Seven miles northeast of Fairbury. Founded in 1883 by a man named Byrd. According to a local story, there was already a Byrd in Illinois so there ought […]

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October 8, 2008

Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 8, 2008

Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

My hometown! Park Forest. Cook, Will. Founded in 1946 as a residential community for returning veterans of World War II by Carroll F. Sweet and American Community Builders. The name […]

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October 7, 2008

Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 7, 2008

Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

Foosland [FOOS luhnd]. Champaign. Village (1959) seven miles southwest of Gibson City. Founded in 1874 and named for William Foos, an absentee landlord who owned some 3,500 acres in Champaign […]

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