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Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois and the seat of Sangamon County.The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh-most populous city, [10] the second-most populous outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the most populous in Central Illinois.
Legislation to implement a multiyear license plate was finally proposed in 1977. The bill to institute five-year plates passed the House Motor Vehicle Committee on March 16, 1977, and the state House on March 29, 1977. Alan Dixon, the Secretary of State, spoke in favor of passage of the bill. The Senate Transportation Committee passed the bill ...
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755, or 1757 [a] – July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington's presidency.
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Illinois Route 33 passes through the center of the city as Main Street, leading east 7 miles (11 km) to Palestine near the Indiana border and west 24 miles (39 km) to Newton. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Robinson has a total area of 4.76 square miles (12.33 km 2 ), of which 4.70 square miles (12.17 km 2 ) (or 98.72%) is land ...
In 1795, Illinois as part of the Northwest Territory inherited the English "buggery" law, which punished sodomy with death.In 1819, after statehood, it enacted its own statute which outlawed sodomy with one to five years' imprisonment, a fine of 100-500 dollars and between 100 and 500 lashes.
Kroc was born on October 5, 1902, in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago, to Czech-American parents, Rose Mary [née Hrach] (1881–1959) and Alois "Louis" Kroc (1879–1937). [6] [7] Alois was born in Horní Stupno, part of Břasy near Rokycany. [8] Rose's father Vojtěch was from Ševětín and her maternal grandfather Josef Kotilínek was from ...