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U.S. Representative from Illinois Buried in Decatur (Greenwood Cemetery) Rolla C. McMillen: Oct 5, 1880: May 6, 1961: U.S. Representative from Illinois Lived in Decatur Richard James Oglesby: Jul 25, 1824: Apr 24, 1899: U.S. senator and the 14th governor of Illinois: Grew up in Decatur Thomas D. Westfall: May 14, 1927: Mar 7, 2005: Mayor of El ...
At 5:00 p.m. on September 27, 1996, Karyn Slover left her job in the advertising sales department of the Decatur Herald & Review newspaper, with the intent to pick up her son Kolten and then shop for a dress at the Hickory Point Mall in Forsyth, Illinois. [3]
For 45 years, [8] J. Thomas McNamara wrote a weekly sports column in the Decatur Tribune titled "Irish Stew", covering Central Illinois high school sports. In 2015 he received the Illinois High School Association distinguished media service award. McNamara was a member of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame, Macon County Sports ...
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Illinois' first African American newspaper was the Cairo Weekly Gazette, established in 1862. [1] The first in Chicago was The Chicago Conservator, established in 1878. An estimated 190 Black newspapers had been founded in Illinois by 1975, [2] and more have continued to be established in the decades since.
The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Central Illinois. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 70,522. [4] It is the seventeenth-most populous city in Illinois. [5] Decatur has an economy based on industrial and agricultural commodity processing and production.
Galesburg, Illinois: Inactive [168] Moline Alumnae: Before April 1969 Moline, Illinois: Inactive [168] Springfield Alumnae: Before April 1969 Springfield, Illinois: Inactive [168] University of Palm Beach Alumnae: 1968 Palm Beach, Florida: Inactive [260] Southeastern Michigan Alumnae: 1970 Dearborn, Michigan: Active [124] Eta Theta Alumnae 1972 ...
Acks was born, attended high school and college in Illinois. [10] Valdas Adamkus (1926–living), president of Lithuania 1998–2009. Lived in Illinois for a number of years after emigrating to the United States from Lithuania, getting a college degree and entering Chicago politics. [11] Mike Adamle, NFL and Northwestern running back, TV ...