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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stephenson County, Illinois. Official Website The land that became Stephenson County was first settled by William Waddams in 1832, who founded Waddams Grove. By 1837, population was sufficient to form Stephenson County. It was named for Colonel Benjamin Stephenson, an official of the Illinois Territory. Adjacent Counties Gree...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lake County, Illinois.= Official Website =The county, which was primarily unsettled prairie and was still home to its native Potawatomi Indians, was created by the Illinois State Legislature in 1839. Adjacent Counties * Kenosha County, Wisc. * McHenry County * Cook County Cities *Highland Park*Highwood*Lake Forest*North Chicago*Park ...
This cemetery is located on 31 Memorial Drive, Murphysboro, Jackson County, Illinois. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This project is for those buried in Warren Cemetery, Orchardville, Wayne County, Illinois. Find a Grave
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Chicago, Illinois. This project is in the Cook County, Illinois project. 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 ...
This project is for those buried in Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Johnsonville, Wayne County, Illinois. Find a Grave
Concordia Cemetery, founded in 1872, is operated by an association of several Lutheran congregations in Chicago. The Des Plaines River runs along the cemetery's western side, and the Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) marks the southern boundary; the expressway's construction in the early 1950s necessitated the relocation of several thousand graves in the cemetery, as was also true of Forest Home Ce...
Chippiannock has long been considered a Quad Cities Landmark and is the resting place of over 25,000 persons, including some of the Quad Cities most memorable individuals. One can trace the history of the territory, and even the nation, in the inscriptions on the headstones of the adventurers and settlers, rivermen and preachers, statesmen and builders who have left their mark on the territory....
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Champaign County, Illinois. Official Website Champaign County was organized in 1833, having been previously a part of Vermilion County. The county and county seat were named for Champaign County, Ohio and Urbana, Ohio respectively, the homeplace of the Illinois legislator who sponsored the bill to create the county. The development...
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 frequen...
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 4...
Chanute Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force facility, located in Champaign County, Illinois, south of and adjacent to Rantoul, Illinois, about 130 miles south of Chicago. Its primary mission throughout its existence was Air Force technical training. Chanute Field was established on 21 May 1917, being one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the Unite...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in LaSalle County, Illinois. Official Website LaSalle County was formed on January 15, 1831 out of Tazewell and Putnam Counties. It is named for the early French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. William D. Boyce founded the Boy Scouts of America in Ottawa. He and two other founders established the BSA, but Boyce is gi...
This project is part of the State of Illinois Portal. This project is for those FROM Illinois and/or their respective Cities, Towns & Counties. Projects on Geni Cities & Towns Aurora Bloomington Champaign Elgin Galesburg Joliet Knoxville Monee
The University of Chicago ( UChicago ) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1890, its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. In Fall 2021, it enrolled 18,452 students, including 7,559 undergraduates and 10,893 graduate students. The university is composed of an undergraduate college and five graduate research divisions, which contain all of the...
Early settlers of Illinois were people who established residency in or immigrants to Illinois prior to 1860. In the case of entire families immigrating together, it is appropriate to add all adults and children among those who settled in Illinois.Illinois is popularly known as the "Land of Lincoln" in honor of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, who movedwith his family fr...
This cemetery is located on County Highway 20, Hooppole, Henry County, Illinois. Find a Grave
Wikipedia =Loyola University Chicago (often referred to as Loyola or LUC) is a private American Catholic university located in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1870 by the Jesuits, today Loyola is one of the largest Catholic universities in the nation and a major contributor to Chicago's economic and cultural capital. Loyola's professional schools have educated generations of local business and ci...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in DeKalb County, Illinois. Official Website DeKalb County was formed on 4 March 1837, out of Kane County, Illinois. The County was named for Johann de Kalb, a German (Bavarian) hero of the American Revolutionary War. DeKalb County's area is approximately 632.7 square miles, located 63 miles west of Chicago. Between 1834 and 1837, se...
This project is for those that were born, lived, or died in Fulton County, Illinois. Fulton County was organized in 1823 from Pike County. It is named for Robert Fulton, developer of the first commercially successful steamboat. American poet and writer Edgar Lee Masters lived in Fulton County during the 1890s; he later became famous for the Spoon River Anthology, written in 1915. Fulton County...
Please add those who were born, lived, or died in Rock Island County, Illinois. Rock Island County was formed in 1831 out of Jo Daviess County. It was named for Rock Island, an island in the Mississippi River now known as Arsenal Island. The Rock River (which the Sauk and Meskwaki peoples called Sinnissippi, meaning "rocky waters")[5] flows from Whiteside County and points further east and nor...
Lily Lake Cemetery is a public cemetery, located in Lily Lake, Campton Township, Kane County, Illinois. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Kane County, the only cemetery within Lily Lake Village limits. In fact, the cemetery was here before Lily Lake was a Village, when the area was known as Canada Corners. The Cemetery was first called Canada Corners Cemetery, then Campton Cemetery and in 1...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Sangamon County, Illinois. Official Website Sangamon County was formed in 1821 out of Madison and Bond counties. The county was named for the Sangamon River, which runs through it. The origin of the name of the river is unknown; among several explanations is the theory that it comes from the Pottawatomie word Sain-guee-mon (pronou...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Peoria County, Illinois. Official Wesbite Peoria County was formed in 1825 and was named for the Peoria, an Illiniwek people who lived there. Adjacent Counties Knox County Stark County Fulton County Marshall County Woodford County Cities & Villages Bartonville Bellevue Brimfield Chillicothe Dunlap ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Peoria, Illinois.= Official Website = Overview 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 g...