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University=Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university with campuses in Evanston and Chicago in Illinois, United States, as well as Doha, Qatar. Home to twelve schools and colleges, Northwestern offers 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees.Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans, for whom the City of Evanston is named, and eight other lawye...
This project is for those who were born, lived, and died in Cook County, Illinois. Cook County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is the second-most populous county in the United States after Los Angeles County, California. As of 2015, the population was 5,238,216. Its county seat is Chicago, the largest city in Illinois and third-most populous city in the United States. More than ...
This project is used to relate all units from Illinois who served in the Union Army.
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This project is part of the State of Illinois Portal. This project is for those FROM Illinois and/or their respective Counties. There are 102 counties in the state of Illinois. Most counties in Illinois were named after early American leaders, especially of the American Revolutionary War, as well as soldiers from the Battle of Tippecanoe and the War of 1812. Some are named after n...
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University of Chicago The University of Chicago ( U of C , UChicago , or simply Chicago ) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Sr. , the University of Chicago was incorporated in 1890; William Rainey Harper became the university's first president in ...
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Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House (named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull) opened to recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911, Hull House had grown to 13 buildings. In 1912 the Hull House complex was completed with...
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Please add those who were born in, lived in or died in Ford County, Illinois. On February 17, 1859 Ford County became the 102nd and last county to be established in the State of Illinois. Ford County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 United States Census, it had a population of 14,081. Its county seat is Paxton. Ford County was named after Thomas Ford, the Gov...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rockford, Illinois. Rockford is the county seat of Winnebago County and lies on the Rock River. History Rockford traces its roots to 1834, as the combined settlements of Midway were founded on both banks of the Rock River. On the west bank, Germanicus Kent and Thatcher Blake (with his slave Lewis Lemon) founded Kentville; the ...
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Please add the profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in McLean County, Illinois. McLean County, Illinois was formed in 1830 out of Tazewell County and named after former Illinois Sen. John McLean (D-IL) . Bloomington is the county seat. Official Web Site Cities, Towns, Unincorporated and Incorporated Communites - Past & Present: denotes County Seat Allin - Anchor - Arrows...
This project is for those who were born, lived, and died in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois . The name "Chicago" is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as "Checagou" was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir. ...
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Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in Calhoun County, Illinois. Official Website History Calhoun County was settled by Americans during the very early 19th century, and officially organized in 1825. It was named for Vice President John C. Calhoun, in addition to the Calhoun family that was prominent in the area at the time. The southern side of the county, covered ...
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Contents: Introduction Finding Aids Church Presidents Quorum of 12 Apostles before 1844 Three Witnesses Eight Witnesses Current First Presidency Current Quorum of Twelve Apostles People Mentioned in Doctrine and Covenants Others of Interest Early Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Haun's Mill Victims Introduction: The scope of this project...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bureau County, Illinois. History Bureau County was created from a portion of Putnam County in 1837. It is named for brothers Michel and Pierre Bureau, French Canadians who ran a trading post from 1776 until the 1780s near the conjunction of Big Bureau Creek with Illinois River. Their actual surname most likely was Belleau, but the...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Brown County, Illinois. Official Website Brown County was formed out of Schuyler County in 1839. It is named in honor of U.S. General Jacob Brown, who defeated the British at the Battle of Sackett's Harbor in 1813. Adjacent Counties Schuyler County Cass County Morgan County Pike County Adams County Cities, Villag...
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Wikipedia Bradley University is a private, mid-sized university in Peoria, Illinois. Founded in 1897, Bradley University currently enrolls 5,700 students. The Bradley Polytechnic Institute was founded by philanthropist Lydia Moss Bradley in 1897 in memory of her husband Tobias and their six children, all of whom died early and suddenly, leaving Bradley a childless widow. The Bradleys had di...
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Please add those who were born, lived or died in Bloomington or Normal, Illinois. Bloomington and Normal are twin cities, though Bloomington has the larger population and is the county seat. Official Website Bloomington The Bloomington area was at the edge of a large grove occupied by the Kickapoo people before the first Euro-American settlers arrived in the early 1820s. Springing from th...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Boone County, Illinois. History Boone County was formed in 1837 out of Winnebago County. It was named for Kentucky frontiersman Daniel Boone . The first non-Native American settlers arrived in what is now Boone County in 1835. They arrived as a result of the end of the Black Hawk War as well as the completion of the Erie Canal. Th...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Peoria, Illinois. Peoria is the county seat of Peoria County, is the largest city on the Illinois River and is the oldest European settlement in Illinois. French explorers René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Henri de Tonti constructed Fort Crevecoeur. This fort would later burn to the ground, and in 1813 Fort C...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bond County, Illinois. History Bond County was formed in 1817 out of Madison County. It was named for Shadrach Bond, who was then the delegate from the Illinois Territory to the United States Congress, and who thereupon became the first governor of Illinois, serving from 1818 to 1822. The county's primary city, Greenville, had a...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Springfield, Illinois. Springfield is the capital of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County. History Springfield was originally named "Calhoun", after Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina.The land that Springfield now occupies was settled first by trappers and fur traders who came to the Sangamon River in 1818. I...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the cities of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Both cities are located in Champaign County with Urbana being the county seat. The area has a population of 231,891 as determined by the 2010 U.S. Census. It is home to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system. Journalists f...
This project is for those that were born, lived, and died in Fulton County ,Illinois
Siia projekti kogume kõik eestlased kes on Chicagos või selle ümbruses elanud mõnda aega, tegutsenud eesti organisatsioonides ja osalenud eestipärastel üritustel. Nende hulgas: Chicago Eesti Maja (Estonian House of Chicago) Chicago Eesti Selts Põhja Illinois Eestlaste Koondis EELK Chicago Esimene Kogudus EELK Chicago Pauluse Kogudus Kesk - Lääne Eesti Noorte Koondis (KLENK) Chicag...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Aurora, Illinois . Official Website History Aurora is a suburb of Chicago and is located in DuPage , Kendall , Kane and Will counties. It's nickname is "City of Lights" because it was one of the first American cities to have electric street lights. The Aurora area has some significant architecture, including structures by Fran...
Aurora University is a private, nonprofit, co-educational liberal arts college located in Aurora, Illinois, United States, 40 miles west of Chicago. In addition to its main campus and the Orchard Center in Aurora, Illinois, AU offers programs online, at its George Williams College campus in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, and at the Woodstock Center in downtown Woodstock, Illinois. Approximately 5,500...
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) The Copperheads were a vocal faction of Democrats located in the Northern United States of the Union who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. Republicans started calling antiwar Democrats "Copperheads", likening them to the venomous snake. The Democrats accepted the label, reinterpreting the copper "head" as the likeness of Liberty, wh...
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This project is for those that were born, lived and died in Adams County, Illinois . Official Website Adams County was formed in 1825 out of Pike County . Its name is in honor of the sixth President of the United States , John Quincy Adams . When it was created, Hancock County was temporarily attached to Adams until it could organize a county government. Adams County reduced to its current ...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Alexander County, Illinois . Official Website History Alexander County was organized from part of Union County in 1819. It was named for William M. Alexander, a physician who practiced in the town of America. The county was initially developed for agriculture and settled by numerous migrants from the Upper South. The county seat...
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Wikipedia Alton National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Alton, in Madison County, Illinois. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses only half an acre plot of land, and as of the end of 2005, had 522 interments. Find a Grave
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This project is for those that were born,lived, and died in Quincy,Adams County, Illinois. Adams County: Quincy:
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This project is for those that were born, lived, and died in Pike County, Illinios.
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Wikipedia The Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery covers 982 acres in Elwood, Illinois . It is located approximately 50 miles southwest of Chicago, Illinois . Find a Grave
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