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In the early hours of 3 June 1893, a black day-laborer named Samuel J. Bush was forcibly taken from the Macon County, Illinois, jail and lynched. [1] [2] Mr. Bush stood accused of raping Minnie Cameron Vest, a white woman, who lived in the nearby town of Mount Zion.
Pugh was born in Christian County, Kentucky.He moved to Macon County, Illinois and became a private and served during the Black Hawk War.In 1846 he became a captain in the 4th Illinois Volunteer Regiment during the Mexican War and was mustered out of the volunteer service the following year.
Illinois legislator murdered by a tenant: Hale Johnson: Bogota: 1902-11-04: Prohibition Part presidential candidate; shot to death while trying to collect a debt: Murder of Clarence Hiller: Chicago: 1910-09-19: Railroad clerk murdered, first use of fingerprint evidence for conviction: Elsie Paroubek: Chicago: 1911-04-08
DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — The Macon County Coroner’s Office has released the name of a home invasion suspect who was shot dead while breaking into a home earlier this week. Coroner Michael Day ...
Macon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 United States Census , it had a population of 103,998. [ 1 ] Its county seat and most populous city is Decatur .
Pages in category "Macon County, Illinois" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Decatur (/ d ɪ ˈ k eɪ t ər / dih-KAY-tər) is the largest city in and the county seat of Macon County, Illinois, United States. The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Central Illinois. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 70,522. [4] It is the seventeenth-most populous city in ...
Location of Macon County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Macon County, Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Macon County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...