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In 2023, Landmarks Illinois added Brooklyn to 2023's list of Most Endangered Historic Places in Illinois, listing among its threats Brooklyn's decline in population and economy, high unemployment and low tax base, its lack of recognition for its history, and its sale of parcels to railroads that separate the community from the riverbank. [23] [24]
Archaeologists Dig in Brooklyn, IL for Signs of Slave-Freeing Founder Priscilla Baltimore (in en). Riverfront Times . Archived from the original on 2021-02-18 .
People born in, from, or otherwise associated with Brooklyn, Illinois Pages in category "People from Brooklyn, Illinois" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
At the end of the American Revolution, one in three black inhabitants in Brooklyn were enslaved, a statistic that inevitably drove a wave of activism in the years to come.
Alan John Dixon (July 7, 1927 – July 6, 2014) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served in the Illinois General Assembly from 1951 to 1971, as the Illinois treasurer from 1971 to 1977, as the Illinois secretary of state from 1977 to 1981 and as a U.S. senator from 1981 until 1993.
The central Illinois chapter includes Cass, Christian, Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Montgomery, and Sangamon counties, although the group's 50 members were all from Sangamon County. There were 600 ...
Brooklyn became a major place of Underground Railroad activity. Priscilla Baltimore's degree of involvement in this is not known, but she was a very active abolitionist at the time, [ 2 ] and the Quinn Chapel, with which she was closely involved, was very active in helping escapees, as were a network of other strategically-placed AME churches ...
Kolanowski is a full-time student at the University of Illinois Springfield where she studies history, which works hand in hand with her understanding of how art can portray feelings but also teach.