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Des Plaines Methodist Camp Ground is a historic Methodist church camp at 1250 Campground Road in Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.. The annual camp meeting was established in 1860 by a group of Methodist ministers and businessmen, including the future war hero and Illinois Governor John L. Beveridge, on the scenic land of Squire Socrates Rand along the Des Plaines River.
The John Deere World Headquarters is a complex of four buildings located on 1,400 acres (570 ha) of land [1] at One John Deere Place, Moline, Illinois, United States. [2] The complex serves as corporate headquarters for agricultural heavy equipment company John Deere .
Algonquin was the location of Indian burial mounds known in the 1800s as the Algonquin Mounds. [14] By 1834 the first settler of Algonquin, Samuel Gillilan, came to the area from Virginia. Settlers Dr. Cornish, Dr. Plumleigh, Eli Henderson, Alex Dawson, and William Jackson arrived shortly thereafter.
IL 62 is called Algonquin Road for its entire length, and it is a northern parallel to Interstate 90 (I-90). It is one of the few state roads in Illinois to be shorter than the name of the road that it marks, as Algonquin Road continues westward as McHenry CR A48 to IL 47 (about eight miles [13 km]), eastward as a local road to Oakton Street and Riverside Drive by I-294 (about five miles [8.0 ...
The Longmeadow Parkway is a bypass of Algonquin, Illinois.It is a four-lane Fox River Bridge crossing and four-lane arterial roadway corridor with a median, approximately 5.6 miles (9.0 km) in length, to alleviate traffic congestion in northern Kane County.
John Davis Porcari (born December 14, 1958) is an American government official and businessman who served as United States deputy secretary of transportation and Port ...
The Algonquin Round Table was a group of New York City writers, critics, actors, and wits. Gathering initially as part of a practical joke , members of "The Vicious Circle", as they dubbed themselves, met for lunch each day at the Algonquin Hotel from 1919 until roughly 1929.
Pollastrini is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Barbara Pollastrini (born 1947), Italian politician and university professor; Elettra Pollastrini (1908–1990), Italian politician; Enrico Pollastrini (1817–1876), Italian painter