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Chester is the "Home of Popeye," where a 6-foot (1.8 m), 900-pound (410 kg) bronze statue of Popeye the Sailor Man stands in the Elzie C. Segar Memorial Park, which honors Popeye's creator, Elzie Segar. The park is located next to the Chester Bridge. Several of Segar's characters were created from his experiences with people of Chester.
In 1977, Segar's hometown of Chester, Illinois, named a park in his honor. The park contains a six-foot-tall bronze statue of Popeye. The annual Popeye Picnic, a weekend-long event that celebrates the character with a parade, film festival and other activities, is held the first weekend after Labor Day. [28]
The park was dedicated to E. C. Segar who was born on December 8, 1894, in Chester, Illinois. [13] Segar is most noted for his cartoon comic "Popeye” which he created in 1929 from his recollections of a local scrapper on the Mississippi River. A six-foot “life-size” bronze statue of Popeye stands near the bridge. [14] [15]
Chester, Illinois, Segar's hometown, erected a statue of Popeye in Segar's honor in 1977 and began the Popeye & Friends Character Trail in 2006, adding new statues honoring the other Thimble Theater characters each year. This Character Trail is spread throughout Chester and includes (with unveiling dates): Popeye (1977) [18]
Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum, Woodstock, closed in 2008, collection now online [78] Driehaus Gallery of Stained Glass, gallery of stained glass at Navy Pier closed in 2017; Gardner Museum of Architecture & Design, Quincy [79] [80] [81] Illinois Museum of Natural History, campus of Illinois State University, Old Main building, from 1857-1877
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Chester Opera House was a cinema and theatre which showed both movies and live stage performances in Chester, Illinois, US. Elzie Segar, the creator of Popeye, worked there from the age of twelve. [1] The Chester Opera House was built in the late 19th century. It was converted to a movie house in about 1920s by its owner, Bill Schuchert.
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