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The Mineral School building continued to serve as a grade school for the Annawan School District until 1974, when its services as a school were ceased for good. The creation of I-80 north of Mineral was the second devastating blow to the growth of Mineral in the 1960s. All foreign traffic that previously traveled through town by the hundreds of ...
Bank robber killed a marshall and a police detective, then committed suicide [22] [23] Michael Alfonso: 1992, 2001: 2: Committed two murders, listed on FBI's Ten Most Wanted list: Brown's Chicken massacre: Palatine: 1993-01-08: 7: Two robbers killed seven employees at a fast-food restaurant [24] Mark Winger: Springfield: 1995-08-29: 2
The Pana riot, or Pana massacre, was a coal mining labor conflict and also a racial conflict that occurred on April 10, 1899, in Pana, Illinois, and resulted in the deaths of seven people. It was one of many similar labor conflicts in the coal mining regions of Illinois that occurred in 1898 and 1899.
This is a list of people executed in Illinois. A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Illinois since 1977. [1] All were executed by lethal injection. Another man condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman, was executed in Ohio. [2] Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.
The Shelton Brothers Gang was an early Prohibition-era bootlegging gang based in southern Illinois. They were the main rivals of the famous bootlegger Charles Birger and his gang. In 1950, the Saturday Evening Post described the Sheltons as "America's Bloodiest Gang".
Two high fatality events after 1953 occurred in Mississippi (23 in 1955) and Illinois (13 in 1967); accounting for 82% of 1952–2006 deaths, both from violent class tornadoes. More tornadoes with deaths in schools have occurred in the Southeastern United States —23 events or over half the national total—than any other region.
The Moweaqua Coal Mine disaster happened on December 24, 1932, in Moweaqua, Illinois.The disaster was caused by a methane gas explosion killing 54 miners. The explosion occurred shortly after the day shift started, sometime between 7:30 and 8:00 Christmas Eve morning.
The Herrin massacre took place on June 21–22, 1922 in Herrin, Illinois, in a coal mining area during a nationwide strike by the United Mineworkers of America (UMWA). ). Although the owner of the mine originally agreed with the union to observe the strike, when the price of coal went up, he hired non-union workers to produce and ship out coal, as he had high debt in start-