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Chester is the "Home of Popeye," where a 6-foot (1.8 m), 900-pound (410 kg) bronze statue of Popeye the Sailor Man stands in the Elzie C. Segar Memorial Park, which honors Popeye's creator, Elzie Segar. The park is located next to the Chester Bridge. Several of Segar's characters were created from his experiences with people of Chester.
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.
Pages in category "People from Chester, Illinois" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
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.
A blind senior cat in his 20th year left home at night and ended up stuck on an ice chunk in the middle of a freezing lake. Hours later, things were looking dire, and they probably would’ve ...
Darrell Mudra, 93, Hall of Fame college football coach (North Dakota State University, University of Arizona, Eastern Illinois University) (b. 1929) [377] Allan M. Siegal , 82, newspaper editor ( The New York Times ) (b. 1940) [ 378 ]