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This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Ottawa is a city in and the county seat of LaSalle County, Illinois, United States.It is located at the confluence of the navigable Fox River and Illinois River, the latter being a conduit for river barges and connects Lake Michigan at Chicago, to the Mississippi River, and North America's 25,000 mile river system.
LaSalle County is part of the Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area of Northern Illinois. LaSalle County borders Woodford, Marshall, Putnam, Bureau, Livingston, Lee, DeKalb, Kendall, and Grundy counties. Though LaSalle County is in the Chicago media market, it retains a unique identity with a mix of river towns and vast expanses of farmland.
Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area (3 C, 78 P) P. Paducah micropolitan area (4 C, 24 P) Q. Quincy, Illinois micropolitan area (3 C, 32 P) Pages in category ...
Samuel Fox is credited with helping William Singleton to start the first "Adult School" [1] in Nottingham, England in 1798. [2] Initially, the classes were for young women from local lace and hosiery factories. [3] William Singleton, a Methodist, started the school, but it was Fox and the staff from his grocer shop that maintained it.
The Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area, [1] as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of three counties in north central Illinois, anchored by the city of Ottawa. Peru (until 2020) and Streator (until 2013) are former primary cities. As of the 2010 census, the μSA had a population of 154,908. [2]
The Fox Valley—also commonly known as the Fox River Valley—is a region centered on the Fox River of Northern Illinois, along the western edges of the Chicago metropolitan area. [1] The region extends from the village of Antioch , in far northern Illinois, to the city of Ottawa in the south. [ 1 ]