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A Guide to the History of Illinois. (1991) Howard, Robert P. Illinois: A History of the Prairie State (1972). Howard, Robert P. Mostly Good and Competent Men: Illinois Governors 1818–1988 (1988) Hutchinson, William. Lowden of Illinois the Life of Frank O. Lowden 2 vol (1957) governor in 1917–21; Jensen, Richard.
Westchester village, Illinois – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category.
Illinois Route 110/336, a four-lane divided highway, bypasses Colchester to the south, joining US 136 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of the city. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Colchester has a total area of 1.15 square miles (2.98 km 2), all land. [1] Argyle Lake State Park is 2 miles (3 km) north of Colchester.
Wadsworth is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census , the population was 3,517. [ 2 ] It is named after E. S. Wadsworth , who was a major stockholder for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad , which passes through the village.
One of the four mounds was destroyed in the construction of Illinois Route 3. [2] The Ware Mounds and Village Site is situated just west of Ware. In January 1839, thousands of Cherokee Indians being forcibly relocated from their lands in Georgia to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) passed through Ware.
I-55 leads southwest 37 miles (60 km) to St. Louis and north 58 miles (93 km) to Springfield, the Illinois capital. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , Livingston has a total area of 1.05 square miles (2.72 km 2 ), of which 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2 ), or 1.23%, are water. [ 1 ]
Hurst was founded in 1903 as a stop along the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, which had extended a line to the area from De Soto.Thomas Philip Russell, who donated some of the land for the new city, initially sought to name it after his family, but the name "Russell" was already in use elsewhere in Illinois.
Forreston was platted in 1854, and named for the forests near the original town site. [2]Brought on by the town's predominant population of German-ancestry, the annual "Sauerkraut Days" was a popular free-food festival held in the city limits of Forreston. [3]