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  2. Joseph Bowman - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Lawrence Bowman (c. 1752 – 15 August 1779) was an American frontiersmen and military officer who fought during the American Revolutionary War.He was second-in-command during Colonel George Rogers Clark's 1778 military campaign to capture the Illinois Country, in which Clark and his men seized the key British-controlled towns of Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes.

  3. List of first women mayors in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Rose M. Brown, first woman mayor of Tinley Park, Illinois. 1979. Jane M. Byrne, first woman elected Mayor of Chicago, Illinois [1]: 238–239, 249–250 Byrne was also the first female mayor of any United States city with more than 3 million residents. 1983. Helen Westberg, first woman mayor of Carbondale, Illinois [123] 2001

  4. List of counties in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Knox would later become a county in Indiana and is unrelated to the current Knox County in Illinois, while St. Clair would become the oldest county in Illinois. 15 counties had been created by the time Illinois achieved statehood in 1818. The last county, Ford County, was created in 1859.

  5. Marshall Ayres - Wikipedia

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    Ayres, was one of the pioneer residents of Griggsville, Illinois moving there in 1821. Their son Marshall Ayres, Jr. , a future oil industrialist, was born on February 20, 1839 [ 2 ] The two families were successful business partners in Illinois with the Ayres & Lombard Bank & Store, and also a steamboat ferry called Prairie State .

  6. Deaths in November 2024 - Wikipedia

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    Barbara T. Bowman, 96, American education activist, heart failure. [80] Jonathan Brostoff, 41, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (2015–2022) and Milwaukee Common Council (since 2022), suicide. [81] Daniel Ceppi, 73, Swiss comics artist. [82] Gary Cormack, 74, Canadian wheelchair curler, Paralympic champion . [83]

  7. List of people from Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Richard J. Daley, politician (Democrat), member of Illinois State Assembly, Mayor of Chicago 1955–1976; Richard M. Daley, politician (Democrat), attorney, Illinois state senator, Mayor of Chicago 1989–2011, son of Richard J. Daley; William M. Daley, 1997-2000 U.S. Secretary of Commerce and 2011-12 White House Chief of Staff; Rick Dalpos ...