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Born in Galatia, Saline County, Illinois, Fowler served in the United States Navy. He served in the Illinois State Police for twenty-eight years. Fowler lived in Harrisburg, Illinois with his wife and family. He served as the county clerk for Saline County and was a Democrat. From 1999 to 2003, Fowler served in the Illinois House of ...
Until the late 1980s it was located on Locust Street in Eldorado. It is now published at the Harrisburg Daily Register office, and circulated to Eldorado residents. In 1987, the papers were acquired by Hollinger. [6] GateHouse Media purchased roughly 160 daily and weekly newspapers from Hollinger in 1997, including the Register and Journal. [7]
Harrisburg (/ ˈ h ær ɪ s b ɜːr ɡ, ˈ h ɛər z-/) is a city in and the county seat of Saline County, Illinois, United States. [2] It is located about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southwest of Evansville, Indiana, and 111 mi (179 km) southeast of St. Louis, Missouri.
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The largest city and county seat is Harrisburg. [2] This area of Southern Illinois is known locally as "Little Egypt". Three major towns in Saline County are connected by U.S. Route 45, and formerly by the now-abandoned Cairo and Vincennes/Big Four/New York Central Line, from north to south: Eldorado, Harrisburg, and Carrier Mills.
It lies three miles South of Harrisburg on US 45. At one time, it had a population of 1,100 to 1,400 people. According to an early edition of the Harrisburg Daily Register, there was a time during the first 10 years of the 20th century that the population of Ledford was larger than that of Harrisburg, the county seat. In 1905, Saline County had ...
Liberty (also known as Ingrams [1]) is an unincorporated community in Harrisburg Township, Saline County, Illinois, United States. Liberty is located on County Route 37 along the southwestern border of Harrisburg. [2] Liberty was a smaller rural community to the far southwest of Harrisburg along Liberty Road. It includes the Liberty Church and ...
In addition he served as Vice President of the Illinois Jaycees, and he credited these experiences with giving him the contacts and name recognition to mount a race for Congress. [8] [9] Gray also completed training as an airplane and helicopter pilot and operated an air service at Benton, Illinois from 1948 to 1952. [10]