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The Starr Village and Mound Group , is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located on a bluff overlooking Macoupin Creek southwest of Carlinville in Macoupin County, Illinois. [ 1 ] Artifacts
In 1976, de Hart added a separate whistling competition to the festival; [5] this was the start of the Whistling Contest. [4] [3] Later, the whistling competition was split from the fall folk festival and became an annual spring event. [5] It was the first whistling convention in the world. [6]
This list of birds of Illinois includes species documented in the U.S. state of Illinois and accepted by the Illinois Ornithological Records Committee (IORC). As of March 2024, there are 455 species and two species pairs included in the official list. [ 1 ]
Roxbury is an unincorporated community in Lee County, Illinois, United States. Roxbury is located on County Route 10, 3.1 miles (5.0 km) west-northwest of Paw Paw . [ 2 ]
Title page of the 1850 first-edition publishing of the Banditti Of The Prairies by Edward Bonney. The Banditti of the Prairie, also known as The Banditti, Prairie Pirates, Prairie Bandits, and Pirates of the Prairie, in the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio and the Territory of Iowa, were a group of loose-knit outlaw gangs, during the early to mid-19th century.
The tiny creature has “large” bronze eyes with a copper streak, researcher said.
“Everyone surrounded me, started whistling at me,” the biologist and wildlife conservationist, 45, recalls. But all she could think about were her infant twin daughters. Like the storks, they ...
The Swan Island Site is an archaeological site in Crawford County, Illinois, located north of the point where the Wabash River crosses the Lawrence County line. The shell midden site, located on a sandstone ridge in the Wabash River flood plain, was inhabited by people of the Riverton culture in the Late Archaic period. As of 1978, it is one of ...