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The Miss Illinois is a pageant program affiliated with Miss America, which is competition for women models representing the state of Illinois. The first "Miss Illinois" sent to the national pageant was Lois Delander who subsequently won the Miss America title. Including Delander, five Miss Illinois representatives have won the Miss America title.
Tri-City Herald staff. August 17, 2024 at 5:00 AM. John W. Shoemaker. John Wesley Shoemaker, 80, of Richland, died Aug. 14 in Richland. He was born in Detroit, Mich., and lived in Richland for 20 ...
Douglas SBD-2 Dauntless, BuNo 2173, of the Carrier Qualification Training Unit, Naval Air Station Glenview, Illinois, piloted by Lieutenant (junior grade) John Lendo, suffers engine failure, probably due to carburetor icing, while on approach to a Type IX training carrier on Lake Michigan. Pilot ditches dive bomber and is rescued.
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2025. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. January 2025 1 Viktor Alksnis, 74, Russian politician ...
Illinois's 5th district: Michael Patrick Flanagan lost to Rod Blagojevich; Maine's 1st district: James B. Longley Jr. lost to Tom Allen; Massachusetts's 3rd district: Peter I. Blute lost to Jim McGovern; Massachusetts's 6th district: Peter G. Torkildsen lost to John F. Tierney; Michigan's 8th district: Dick Chrysler lost to Debbie Stabenow
Acks was born, attended high school and college in Illinois. [10] Valdas Adamkus (1926–living), president of Lithuania 1998–2009. Lived in Illinois for a number of years after emigrating to the United States from Lithuania, getting a college degree and entering Chicago politics. [11] Mike Adamle, NFL and Northwestern running back, TV ...
O'Leary was born at 137 DeKoven Street, the house in which his family lived and where the Great Chicago Fire would start two years later.. O'Leary worked for the local bookies when he was a teenager, and eventually, he began as a bookmaker himself in Long Beach, Indiana, an off-track betting resort.
Mary E. O'Connor (born 1959 [1]) is a former Chicago city alderman. [2] She was the first female alderman to represent the 41st Ward of Chicago on the Northwest side of the city [ 3 ] - the largest geographic ward in Chicago including O'Hare International Airport .