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The site was excavated under the auspices of the University of Chicago by W.C. Bennet, but no comprehensive site report was published. Further excavations took place in 1956 and in 1990 an analysis was published by the Illinois Department of Transportation and the Center for American Archaeology including data from both excavations.
[3] Landmark name Image Location County Culture Comments; 1: Albany Mounds Site: Albany: Albany Mounds Trail 4]: Whiteside: Middle Woodland: Hopewell: 2: Alton Military Prison Site: Alton: inside the block bounded by Broadway and William, 4th, and Mill Sts. 5]: Madison: Euro-American: 3: Apple River Fort Site: Elizabeth: 0.25 miles east-southeast of the junction of Myrtle and Illinois Sts. 6 ...
The apartments typically have the same layout with a large living and dining room area at the front, the kitchen at the back and the bedrooms running down one side of the unit. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Illinois Institute of Technology [11] campus in Chicago influenced the later Modern or International style. Van der Rohe's work is sometimes ...
One of the oldest buildings in McLean County, Illinois Beecher Hall: Jacksonville, Illinois: 1829-1830 College Building Oldest college building in Illinois and the first built in the state Mermaid House Hotel: Lebanon, Illinois: 1830 Hotel Built by Lyman Adams. Visited by Charles Dickens in 1842. Noble–Seymour–Crippen House: Chicago ...
July 31, 2003 (Chicago: Cook: Magnum opus of landscape architect Jens Jensen.: 11: Arthur H. Compton House: Arthur H. Compton House: May 11, 1976 (Chicago: Cook: Home of Nobel Prize–winning physicist who proved light has both wave and particle aspects, the Compton Effect.
The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency owns and operates [4] an area including several mounds in Massac County related to the Kincaid site. This includes the majority of the estimated 141-acre (0.57 km 2) area contained within a wooden palisade, as well as an undefined area of additional occupation to the west. [6]
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The Fort Ancient culture of the Ohio River valley is considered a "sister culture" of the Mississippian horizon, or one of the "Mississippianised" cultures adjacent to the main area of the mound building cultures. This culture was also mostly extinct in the 17th century, but remnants may have survived into the first half of the 18th century.