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Oakwood Cemetery, West Chicago, DuPage County, Illinois, 60185 USA: Find a Grave Oakwood is the oldest cemetery in the city of West Chicago. It was opened in 1858 and is located at the northwest corner of Oakwood Avenue and E. York Avenue.Do not confuse this small cemetery with the very large OAK WOODS cemetery in Chicago, which is more than 35 miles to the east. Illinois death records and Chic...
North Alton Confederate Cemetery is located in North Alton, Illinois. Find a Grave
The Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies (also known as Chicago/Pittsburgh) were a short-lived professional baseball team in the Union Association of 1884. They were to battle the Chicago White Stockings, of the National League, for the Chicago baseball market, however the Browns lost that battle to the White Stockings. After a Baltimore mattress maker gave the club a degree of financial support, ...
The Chicago Whales were a professional baseball team based in Chicago. They played in the Federal League, a short-lived "third Major League", in 1914 and 1915. They originally lacked a formal nickname, and were known simply as the "Chicago Federals" (or "Chi-Feds") to distinguish them from the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox.
Portrait and Biographical Record of Clinton, Washington, Marion and Jefferson Counties, Illinois: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the Counties, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Governors of the State and the Presidents of the United StatesChapman Publishing Company, 1894 - Clinton County (Ill.) - 584 pages Google Books
Rockford Forest Citys (officially the Forest City Club), from Rockford, Illinois was one of the first professional baseball clubs. Rockford played for one season during the National Association inaugural year of 1871.
After Joseph Smith's assassination, the agitation against Mormons continued. The conflict escalated into what has sometimes been called the " Mormon War in Illinois ." Opponents of the Mormons in Warsaw and Carthage began to agitate for the expulsion from Illinois of the Latter Day Saints. In October 1844, a great gathering was announced in Warsaw. Although it was purported to be a "wolf hunt,"...
Profile of the people who fought in the Civil war with the 11th Illinois Vol. regiment of Infantry.