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The Jacksonville Developmental Center was an institution for developmentally delayed clients, located in Jacksonville, Illinois. It was open from 1851 to November 2012. [1] As of December 2012, the 134-acre (54 ha) grounds was still owned by the State of Illinois. [1]
Clemson University is mourning its first tenured African American professor at the College of Education. Dr. Margaree S. Crosby made history in 1977 as the first African American woman to hold ...
The Illinois Hospital for the Incurable Insane began operations on February 10, 1902 and patients characterized as "incurable" were transferred to Bartonville from other Illinois facilities. In 1906 the hospital opened a training school for nurses. From 1907 to 1909 the facility was known as the Illinois General Hospital for the Insane and, in ...
Illinois' first mental hospital opened in Jacksonville, Illinois in 1851, but the need for two more hospitals serving Northern and Southern Illinois became apparent. The legislature authorized the two new hospitals on April 16, 1869. The result was the establishment of the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane.
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With a history dating back to 1830, the Jacksonville Journal-Courier is the "oldest continuously published newspaper in Illinois". [3]In addition to Jacksonville and South Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Journal-Courier circulates in Cass, Greene, Macoupin, Morgan, Brown, Pike and Scott counties, in western Central Illinois.
Kathryn Crosby, the actor, singer and widow of Bing Crosby, died Friday evening of natural causes at her home in Hillsborough, Calif. She was 90. A representative for the Crosby family announced ...
About 1854, he became superintendent of the Illinois State Asylum for the Insane in Jacksonville and served in that position until 1869, when he resigned and established Oak Lawn Retreat, a private asylum in Jacksonville. Beyond his work in mental health, McFarland published on work of fiction, The Escape (Boston, 1851). In 1891, he hanged himself.