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Illinois Department of Natural Resources Randolph County State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park on 1,101 acres (446 ha) in Randolph County , Illinois , United States . References
Chester is a city in and the county seat of Randolph County, Illinois, United States, [3] on a bluff above the Mississippi River. The population was 7,640 at the 2020 census. [ 4 ] It lies 61 miles (98 km) south of St. Louis, Missouri .
The Frederick Weistar House is a historic stone cottage house at 515 Chestnut Street in Chester, Illinois. The house was built circa 1859 for Frederick Weistar, a Swiss immigrant. The house has a vernacular design with a two-door facade pattern, in which two front doors provided access to each of the house's two first-floor rooms. The house ...
Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site is a 200-acre (0.8 km 2) park near Chester, Illinois, on a blufftop overlooking the Mississippi River. It commemorates the vanished frontier town of Old Kaskaskia and the support it gave to George Rogers Clark in the American Revolution .
The Christian F. Weinrich House is a historic house at 217 Opdyke Street in Chester, Illinois. The house was built circa 1873 by Christian F. Weinrich, a local merchant who lived in the house with his family until his death in 1913. Weinrich designed the house using elements of the Folk Victorian and Gothic Revival styles.
Illinois Department of Natural Resources Turkey Bluffs State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 2,264 acres (916 ha) in Randolph County , Illinois , United States . References
Randolph County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 30,163. [1] Its county seat is Chester. [2] Owing to its role in the state's history, the county motto is "Where Illinois Began." It contains the historically important village of Kaskaskia, Illinois's first capital.
The bridge is named after Don Welge, a former Chester resident and longtime advocate for a new bridge for the last 15 years of his life until his death in 2020. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first plans for a new bridge were developed in March 2018, [ 4 ] and construction began in September 2023.