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  2. List of museums in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Operated by the DuPage County Historical Society, county history, period displays, model railroad: Durant House: St. Charles: Kane: Northern Illinois: Historic house: Restored 1840s prairie farmstead, operated by the Preservation Partners of the Fox Valley: DuSable Museum of African American History: Chicago: Cook: Chicago area: African-American

  3. John Humphrey (Illinois politician) - Wikipedia

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    Humphrey's house, built in 1881 as the second permanent house in the settlement, would later become a museum operated by the Orland Historical Society. [2] Humphrey continued to establish himself as a local leader through state politics. In 1870, he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Republican, serving one term

  4. Clay County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Clay County is a county in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 13,288. [1] Since 1842, its county seat has been Louisville, in the center of the county's area. [2] In 1950, the U.S. Census Bureau placed the mean center of U.S. population in Clay County. [3]

  5. National Register of Historic Places listings in Illinois

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    Lincoln Courthouse Square Historic District, Logan County East Dubuque School, Jo Daviess County Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County Illinois State Capitol, Sangamon County Dennis Otte Round Barn, Stephenson County Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, Lee County Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria County General Dean Suspension Bridge, Clinton County

  6. Orland Park, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Orland Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, with a small portion in Will County. It is a suburb of Chicago . Per the 2020 census , Orland Park had a population of 58,703.

  7. Hjemkomst Center - Wikipedia

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    Hjemkomst Center first opened in 1985 and serves as a home to Hjemkomst Viking Ship, Hopperstad Stave Church replica, quarterly museum exhibits, and county archives. In 2009, the Clay County Historical Society (which was founded in 1932) and the Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center merged to form the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay ...

  8. National Register of Historic Places listings in Cook County ...

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    This is a list of the 137 National Register of Historic Places listings in Cook County, Illinois outside Chicago and Evanston. Separate lists are provided for the 62 listed properties and historic districts in Evanston and the more than 350 listed properties and districts in in Chicago .

  9. List of the oldest buildings in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Greene County, Illinois: 1821 Residence Oldest standing house in Greene County Clayville Tavern: Clayville, Illinois: 1824 Tavern Tavern built by John Broadwell Dowling House: Galena, Illinois: 1826-27 Residence Oldest building in Galena Ratcliff Inn: Carmi, Illinois: 1828 Residence Built for Carmi founder James Ratcliff Hodges House ...