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This cemetery is located on South 36th Street, Melrose Township, Adams County, Illinois. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 9100 South Archer Avenue, Willow Springs, Cook County, Illinois. Find a Grave Billion Graves Interment.net
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in Knox County, Illinois.= Official Website =The modern Knox County, Illinois, was organized in 1825 and was named in honor of Henry Knox, the first US Secretary of War. Adjacent Counties * Henry County * Mercer County * Stark County * Fulton County * Peoria County * Warren County Cities & Villages *Abingdon*Altona*East Galesburg* Gales...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Knoxville, Knox County, Illinois.= Official Website =Knoxville was established on January 15, 1831, and called Henderson until its name was changed to Knoxville on December 22, 1832 when it became the county seat. It was one of the first 10 municipalities incorporated in the state and is the oldest town in Knox County. James Knox was ...
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...
Wikipedia The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (U of I, University of Illinois, UIUC, or simply Illinois) is a public research-intensive university in the U.S. state of Illinois. A land-grant university, it is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system. The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (founded, 1867) is the second oldest public university in the state (a...
This project is for those buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Polo, Ogle County, Illinois. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rockingham County, North Carolina. Official Website History Between 1728 and 1733, the Dan River Valley was surveyed by William Byrd II. He soon thereafter purchased 20,000 acres of the land, attracting prospective farmers. The region's first western settlers came from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia and were of...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Coles County, Illinois. Official Website Coles County was organized on December 25, 1830 out of Clark and Edgar counties. It was named after Edward Coles, the second governor of Illinois, from 1822 to 1826. The majority of the American settlers who founded Coles County, Illinois were either from the six New England states, or wer...
This cemetery was established in 1863. Later, the adjacent Roselawn Cemetery was established as a separately managed addition to Mound Cemetery. The two cemeteries are now under joint management. It is located on 1285 West State Street, Charleston, Coles County, Illinois. Find a Grave Mound Cemetery was laid out in 1863. It was founded by John B. Hill. This cemetery is on a natural hill wh...
This cemetery, established in 1913, is located on 1600 West King Street, Decatur, Macon County, Illinois. Official Website Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on North County Road 2580 East, Newman, Douglas 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 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 ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Whiteside County, Illinois. Official Website Whiteside County was organized in 1836. It was named for General Samuel Whiteside, an Illinois officer in the War of 1812 and Black Hawk War. Adjacent Counties Carroll County Ogle County Lee County Bureau County Henry County Rock Island County Clinton County
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Clark County, Illinois. Official Website Clark County was formed in 1819 out of Crawford County. At the time of its formation, Clark County included about a third of Illinois, and extended as far north as the present state of Wisconsin. In 1821 the northern part of Clark County became part of the newly created Pike County, and th...
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 natural fea...
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 t...
Please add the profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in McLean County, Illinois.= Official Web Site =McLean County, Illinois was formed in 1830 and named after former Illinois Sen. John McLean (D-IL) . = Official Web Site = Adjacent Counties * Livingston County * Ford County * Woodford County * Champaign County * Piatt County * DeWitt County
This cemetery is located on South Main Street, Camp Point, Adams County, Illinois. It's also known as Camp Point Cemetery . Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Saline County, Illinois. Official Website History This area of Southern Illinois is known locally as "Little Egypt". Saline County was formed in 1847. It is named for the Saline River and the springs which salt was produced from in the early history of Gallatin County. Saline County was almost named "Moredock County", in honor ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hamilton County, Illinois.= Official Website =Hamilton County was formed out of White County in 1821. It is named for Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary War hero and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.On March 18, 1925, the infamous Tri-State Tornado tore across the county, destroying dozens of homes and farms in Flannig...
This project is for those buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Waynesville, DeWitt County, Illinois. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bureau County, Illinois. Official Website 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 w...
Wikipedia =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...