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Watseka is a city in and the county seat of Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. [2] It is located approximately 15 miles (24 km) west of the Illinois-Indiana state line on U.S. Route 24 . The population of Watseka was 4,679 as of the 2020 Census.
The treaty reserved two sections for Potawanomi chief Me-she-ke-te-no, and one section each for Catish (Mrs. Bourbonnais Sr.) and Manteno (daughter of Francois Bourbonnais Jr.). [4] LeVasseur received considerable land through a series of shrewd trades, and eventually divorced Watseka and married a Canadian woman named Ruth. [6]
Watseka or Watchekee (c. 1810–1878) was a Potawatomi Native American woman, born in Illinois, and named for the heroine of a Potawatomi legend. Her uncle was Tamin, the chief of the Kankakee Potawatomi Indians.
The Old Iroquois County Courthouse, now known as the Iroquois County Museum, is a history museum in Watseka, Illinois, which served as the Iroquois County courthouse from 1866 until 1964. The Italianate building was designed by C.B. Leach and built by contractor A.C. Mantor. In addition to housing county courts and offices, the building also ...
Bourbonnais Township (/ ˌ b ʊər b oʊ ˈ n eɪ, b ɜːr ˈ b oʊ n ɪ s / BOOR-boh-NAY, bur-BOH-niss [2]) is one of seventeen townships in Kankakee County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 40,137 and it contained 15,153 housing units.
Watseka: 1833: Vermilion County: Iroquois Native Americans 26,136: 1,117 sq mi (2,893 km 2) Jackson County: 077: Murphysboro: 1816: Randolph County and Johnson County: Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), seventh President of the United States, United States Senator from Tennessee, and general in the War of 1812: 52,141: 584 sq mi (1,513 km 2) Jasper ...
multimedi a il lustrator and musician to engineer and construction worker. Gattis, who's already earned what she calls a "useless philosophy degree," is now enrolled in community college to become a nurse. She was surprised to learn that she could find a human resources job with the Army while earning her nursing degree at the same time.
The Watseka Union Depot is a historic railway station located on South Second Street in Watseka, Illinois. The depot was built in 1906 to accommodate traffic on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad through the city; it also served the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway 's line.