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Sauk Village is a Mayor and Village Board of Trustees form of government, the Village Administrator handles the day-to-day operations. Sauk Village is also serviced by the Bloom Township Board of Trustees, Nancy L. McConathy Library District and Consolidated School District 168, High School District 206 and Prairie State College Board of Trustees.
Illinois: Sauk Village; Sauk Valley: the cities of Dixon, Sterling, Rock Falls and the surrounding area; Sauk Trail, a winding road south of Chicago, said to follow an old Indian trail; Johnson-Sauk Trail State Recreation Area; and Black Hawk College [Moline and Kewanee, IL].
Tripp Memorial Library and Hall: Tripp Memorial Library and Hall: September 14, 1981 : 565 Water St. Prairie du Sac: J. S. Tripp, a local banker, lawyer and public servant, donated funds to build a library and village hall.
The history of Nauvoo, Illinois, starts with the Sauk and Meskwaki tribes who frequented the area, on a bend of the Mississippi River in Hancock County, some 53 miles (85 km) north of today's Quincy. They called the area "Quashquema", in honor of the Native American chief who headed a Sauk and Fox settlement numbering nearly 500 lodges ...
Cook County will expand its restorative justice court program to the suburbs for the first time with a new court planned for the south suburban Sauk Village, Chief Judge Tim Evans announced Thursday.
By 1826, an estimated 4,800 Sauk lived in and around Saukenuk. Others who passed through, such as William H. Keating, noted that the village was not limited to the Sauk. Keating estimated only about 20% of the warriors that the Sauk could muster had pure Sauk ancestry. [6] It was the largest single settlement in the new U.S. state of Illinois ...
Larry Sapp fought a long legal battle to serve as a trustee in south suburban Sauk Village, and he lost — badly — in three court venues. The final blow came July 3, when the 7th U.S. Circuit ...
Prairie du Sac was so named because it was in the large Wisconsin River Valley where the Sauk Indians had a large settlement. [7] Although the name of the village dates from the early days of French fur traders, Prairie du Sac was established as a village by D.B. Crocker in 1840, largely as a Yankee-English village, [8] in contrast to its neighbor, Sauk City, which was settled largely by Germans.