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Hefner was born in Chicago, Illinois. [1] She is the daughter of Mildred (Williams) and Hugh Hefner. Her parents had separated by the time she was five. When her mother remarried, she moved to Wilmette, Illinois. There she graduated from New Trier High School. [1]
Lee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census , it has a population of 34,145. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Dixon . [ 2 ]
Richard J. Daley — Mayor of Chicago 1955–1976 — Greater Chicago, Illinois: Lodge 3 [39] [third-party source needed] Albert Dutton MacDade — Pennsylvania State Senator 1921-1929 [40] Joe Manchin III — U.S. Senator, State of West Virginia — Charleston, West Virginia: Lodge 1444 [39] [third-party source needed]
The Illinois and Michigan Canal was completed in 1848, extending from the Bridgeport neighborhood in Chicago on the Chicago River, to the Illinois River at the cities of LaSalle-Peru. This canal spurred the growth of Chicago and the areas around it, as water travel was the primary way to ship grain or other commodities in that part of the 19th ...
Illinois has a maximum north–south distance of 390 miles (630 km) and 210 miles (340 km) east-west. Total area is 57,918 square miles (150,010 km 2), ranked 25th in size of the 50 states.
The history of Illinois may be defined by several broad historical periods, namely, the pre-Columbian period, the era of European exploration and colonization, its development as part of the American frontier, its early statehood period, growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, and contemporary Illinois of today.
James Robert Thompson Jr. (May 8, 1936 – August 14, 2020) was an American politician, lobbyist, and federal prosecutor who served as the 37th governor of Illinois from 1977 to 1991. [1]
John Wayne Gacy was born at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, [1] on March 17, 1942, the second of three children and only son of John Stanley Gacy and Marion Elaine Robison. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] His father was an auto repair machinist and World War I veteran, and his mother was a homemaker.