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Sportspeople from Belleville, Illinois (55 P) Pages in category "People from Belleville, Illinois" The following 92 pages are in this category, out of 92 total.
Lived and died in Belleville. Ken Bone: United States presidential debate questioner Works in Belleville James T. Hodgkinson c. 1951 June 14, 2017 Perpetrator of Congressional baseball shooting: Last permanent residence was in Belleville, Illinois: Carrie Thomas Alexander-Bahrenberg: 1861 1929 University of Illinois trustee until 1912 Ninian ...
The Belleville News-Democrat is a daily newspaper in Belleville, Illinois. Focusing on news that is local to the area of southwestern Illinois, it has been published under various names for 150 years. As of 2009, it is published by The McClatchy Company, and is based in St. Clair County, Illinois. It publishes content in print as well as online ...
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Gays is in the southeast corner of Moultrie County, along Illinois Route 16, which leads east 6 miles (10 km) to Mattoon and west-southwest 17 miles (27 km) to Shelbyville. Sullivan, the Moultrie county seat, is 14 miles (23 km) to the northwest. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gays has a total area of 0.39 square miles (1.01 km 2), all land.
View of the coffee counter at LongStory and the ordering window at Clara B’s at 732 S. Illinois St. in Belleville Jennifer Green/jgreen@bnd.com
Belleville became known as "The Stove Capital of the World." The first brewery in Illinois was established in Belleville. In 1868, Gustav Goelitz founded the candy company that is known today as "Jelly Belly." [5] An immense deposit (400,000 acres (1,600 km 2)) of bituminous coal was found in St. Clair County. By 1874, some farmers had become ...