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A 59-year-old Dwight man died after a crash on Old Route 66 late Tuesday night, according to Livingston County Coroner Michael Renner. Renner said his office was notified at 10:42 p.m. on May 7 of ...
Pontiac was the only town laid out in Livingston County in the 1830s, but similar square-centered towns from that time can be found at Metamora, Lexington, Danvers, Clinton, and Le Roy, all established within two years of Pontiac. [15]
The house is named for the owner that acquired it in 1899, Henry C. Jones. Jones was in the newspaper business but later founded and served as president of Pontiac Light, Heat and Power Company. Jones lived in the home until his death in 1921. After his death the home passed through members of the Jones family and it was damaged by fire in 1975.
The Daily Leader is a daily newspaper published in Pontiac, Illinois, United States. Former owner GateHouse Media purchased roughly 160 daily and weekly newspapers from Hollinger Inc. in 1997. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
A 25-year-old woman who’d been healthy until she developed bile duct cancer wrote a final message announcing her death. The poignant letter has gone viral.
Strevell had the size of the home doubled to provide enough room for his new family. In January of 1860, Abraham Lincoln delivered a lecture at the Pontiac Presbyterian Church. After the lecture, Mr. Lincoln was a guest at the home of Jason Strevell until his train took him back to Bloomington.
The Pontiac City Hall and Fire Station is a historic building located at 110 W. Howard St. in Pontiac, Illinois, which served as both Pontiac's city hall and fire station. The building was constructed in 1900 to replace an 1883 building which also served as both a city hall and a fire station.
The title was granted in 1625 to Sir George Calvert (1580–1632), and it became extinct in 1771 on the death of Frederick, 6th Baron Baltimore. [1] The title was held by six members/generations of the Calvert family, who were Lord proprietors of the palatinates Province of Avalon in Newfoundland and Maryland Palatinate (later the Province of Maryland and subsequent American State of Maryland).