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On March 6, 1943, Illinois Governor Dwight H. Green purchased King Neptune for $1 million on behalf of the state of Illinois. At the same auction, one of Neptune's bristles was sold for $500. [4] On one occasion in early 1945, a check was written to King Neptune for his upkeep. The bank asked Lingle to obtain the pig's endorsement to cash the ...
The Heart of Illinois Fair is an annual fair located in Peoria, Illinois, featuring livestock competitions, rides, concessions, motor contests, and concerts. It is held at the Expo Gardens, a fairground in northwest Peoria. [1] [2] A full hook up camping area is also featured on the grounds. Exposition Gardens is a non-profit organization whose ...
America's Auction Channel (or AACtv) is an American satellite television network specializing in over-the-air auctions.. AACtv is an American licensed and bonded auction network specializing in live television auctions broadcast via cable television, satellite television and online.
In livestock auctions, sheep, cattle, pigs and other livestock are sold. Sometimes very large numbers of stock are auctioned, such as the regular sales of 50,000 or more sheep during a day in New South Wales. [106] In timber auctions, companies purchase licenses to log on government land.
The Illinois Department of Agriculture is the code department [1] [2] of the Illinois state government that regulates various facets of the agriculture industries of Illinois, oversees Illinois soil and water conservation, supervises the weights and measures of various commodity products, including gasoline, and supervises the Illinois State Fair. [3]
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was formed by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a vast centralized processing area.
Southern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois comprising the southern third of the state, principally south of Interstate 70.Part of downstate Illinois, it is bordered by the two most voluminous rivers in the United States: the Mississippi below its connection with the Missouri River to the west and the Ohio River to the east and south, with the tributary Wabash River, extending ...
The Southern Illinoisan is a daily newspaper and multimedia news platform based in Carbondale, Illinois, known locally as "The Southern." It is one of the major regional newspaper and media services for southern Illinois. The most recent Editor of The Southern Illinoisan was 22-year-old Jackson Brandhorst, a native of Carbondale, Illinois. [2]