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The Leman family of Eureka, Illinois, poses for a photo on the Illinois Farm Families website. The family is scheduled to be part of regional commercial to air during Super Bowl 58 on Sunday, Feb ...
Born. ( 1976-07-24) July 24, 1976 (age 47) United States. Occupation (s) Farmer, entrepreneur. Sarah Frey (born July 24, 1976) is an American farmer and entrepreneur. She is the CEO and owner of Frey Farms, which she founded at age sixteen. Frey Farms is the largest H-2A visa employer in Illinois as well as the largest grower of pumpkins in the ...
The Funk Family is composed of Midwestern United States pioneers who did business in the fields of agriculture, politics, finance and civic life. [1] Abraham Lincoln was one of Funk Farms' first attorneys [2] and later served in the Illinois House of Representatives with Isaac Funk, who was a friend of Lincoln's and a booster when Lincoln ran ...
Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring farm, south of Hodgenville in Hardin County, Kentucky. His siblings were Sarah Lincoln Grigsby and Thomas Lincoln, Jr. After a land title dispute forced the family to leave in 1811, they relocated to Knob Creek ...
Former State Rep. and U.S. Congressman Tom Ewing said his family's farm in McLean County has been in his family for 170 years. Illinois family 'holding on to heritage' for 170 years and counting ...
Silas Carter Jayne (July 3, 1907 – July 13, 1987) was a Chicago -based stable owner, horse trainer, and horse trader who was heavily involved in criminal activity, including fraud, intimidation, arson, and murder. He covered up the infamous Peterson-Schuessler murders and hired the murder of his stepbrother. Silas was also tried and acquitted ...
The third largest Illinois arena after the United Center in Chicago and the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, State Farm Center has 15,544 permanent seats but, when portable chairs are placed on the floor for an in-the-round performance, there is a potential for an additional 1,000 depending on the stage configuration.
McCormick Place is named for him as is the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. His estate, Cantigny in Wheaton, Illinois, is now a museum. (Joseph Medill Patterson (1879–1946), Illinois State Representative in 1903, was first cousin of J. Medill McCormick and Robert Rutherford McCormick through the Medill family.)