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An image of the rowhome in Turner Station where Henrietta Lacks, the progenitor of the immortal HeLa cell line, lived in the 1940s. Exposure time: 1/145 sec (0.0068965517241379) F-number: f/2.2: ISO speed rating: 40: Date and time of data generation: 13:19, 5 December 2014: Lens focal length: 4.8 mm: Latitude: 39° 14′ 7.54″ N: Longitude ...
West Chicago was originally known as Junction, as three railroads crossed through it. The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad erected the first railway station in the town in 1849, and in five years' time, the town was an important railway maintenance stop. Working on steam engines and railway cars at the time induced a great fire hazard, but ...
"Whereas, It appears from a communication from the Auditor of State to the Clerk of the County Court that, by a decision in his office, the names of the Towns [sic Townships] of Harrison, Eagle and Brooklyn must be changed, in pursuance of which the name of the Town is changed to the name of Maryland; the name of the Town of Brooklyn is changed to Rockvale, and the name of the Town of Eagle is ...
Six construction workers died after a container ship collided with a Baltimore bridge. Now residents who relied on the Key […]
West Chicago is a city in DuPage County, Illinois, United States.The population was 25,614 at the 2020 census.It was formerly named Junction and later Turner Junction, after its founder, John Bice Turner, president of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) in 1855.
The station first signed on the air on July 8, 1954, as KWK-TV. At its launch, channel 4 was owned by a consortium which included Robert T. Convey (28%) and the now-defunct Newhouse Newspapers–published St. Louis Globe-Democrat (23%), who jointly operated KWK radio (1380 AM, now KXFN); Elzey M. Roberts Sr., former owner of KXOK radio (630 AM, now KYFI), which had to be sold as a condition of ...
Cahokia Heights, Illinois: 1737 Residence/Courthouse Oldest building in Illinois. French Canadian Court House [1] Fort de Chartres Powder Magazine Randolph County, Illinois: c. 1750 Military Oldest stone building in Illinois; French military fortification Church of the Holy Family (Cahokia Heights, Illinois) Cahokia Heights, Illinois: 1786-1799 ...
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