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The Plum Island Eagle Sanctuary (Plum Island) is a 52-acre island in the Illinois River owned by the Illinois Audubon Society. [1] It was purchased March 24, 2004, to act as a wildlife sanctuary [1] and to protect foraging habitat for wintering bald eagles. [2] It is close to Matthiessen State Park and adjacent to Starved Rock State Park.
The Golden Eagle-Toppmeyer Site is a pre-Columbian archaeological site located near the confluence of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers in Calhoun County, Illinois.The site is associated with the Havana Hopewell culture and has two main components: the Golden Eagle earthwork and the Toppmeyer habitation site.
Eagle is an unincorporated community in Mountain Township, Saline County, Illinois, United States. Eagle is 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Harrisburg . References
Lowden State Park was founded in 1945, a few years after the Eagle's Nest Art Colony vacated the land. [4] [5] In 1943, the year former Illinois Governor Frank Lowden died, the Illinois House of Representatives Appreciation Committee authorized the purchase of 273 acres (110 ha) as a memorial. [5]
American Eagle is a wooden racing roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America theme park in Gurnee, Illinois.It was the first wooden roller coaster designed by Intamin of Switzerland and was built in 1981 by the contracting firm Figley-Wright at a cost of $10 million.
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"Whereas, It appears from a communication from the Auditor of State to the Clerk of the County Court that, by a decision in his office, the names of the Towns [sic Townships] of Harrison, Eagle and Brooklyn must be changed, in pursuance of which the name of the Town is changed to the name of Maryland; the name of the Town of Brooklyn is changed to Rockvale, and the name of the Town of Eagle is ...
In 2020, there were 316,700 bald eagles in the United States, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a four-fold increase over its 2016 report. The bird was once on the endangered ...