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Freeport, Illinois

Index Freeport, Illinois

Freeport is the county seat and largest city of Stephenson County, Illinois. [1]

91 relations: A.D. Condo, Abraham Lincoln, Alice Bradford Wiles, Area codes 815 and 779, BET, Bloomington, Illinois, Boston, C-SPAN, Calista Flockhart, Carl Cain, Carnegie library, Census, Charles J. Guiteau, Charles J. Stine, Chicago, Clare Winger Harris, Corky Hale, County seat, Dan Balz, Democratic Party (United States), Don Opel Arboretum, Donna Jogerst, Dubuque, Iowa, Edward E. Laughlin, Federal Information Processing Standards, Francis Lamb, Freeport Doctrine, Freeport High School (Illinois), Freeport Township, Stephenson County, Illinois, Galena, Illinois, Gerald McClellan, German Americans, Harlan Rigney, Highland Community College (Illinois), Homer Hillebrand, Illinois, Illinois House of Representatives, Interstate 39, Interstate 55, Interstate 74, Interstate 90, Iowa, James A. Garfield, Jason Pearson (baseball), John Callahan (pitcher), John D. Rockefeller, Joseph M. Bailey, Ken Behring, Leonard Crunelle, Lincoln–Douglas debates, ..., List of municipalities in Illinois, Major League Baseball, Marriage, Municipal corporation, National Football League, Novelty Iron Works, Oscar E. Heard, Oscar Taylor House, Pecatonica River, Per capita income, Population density, Poverty threshold, Preston Pearson, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Richard Wayne Dirksen, Robert L. Johnson, Rockford, Illinois, Seattle, Seattle Seahawks, Stephen A. Douglas, Stephenson County, Illinois, Ted Snyder, Telephone numbering plan, The Journal Standard, The Lincoln–Douglas Debates (1994 reenactments), Theodore Roosevelt, Thirteen Women, Tiffany Thayer, Trisha Paytas, Tuffy Gosewisch, Tutty Baker, U.S. Route 20 in Illinois, United States Census Bureau, United States Senate, WFPS, WFRL, William Eckert, William Rockefeller Sr., William Thomas Rawleigh, ZIP Code, 2010 United States Census. Expand index (41 more) »

A.D. Condo

Armundo Dreisbach "A.D." Condo (September 19, 1872 in Freeport, Illinois – 24 August 1956 in Albany, California) was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the comic strip "The Outbursts of Everett True".

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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Alice Bradford Wiles

Alice Bradford Miles (February 16, 1853 – February 20, 1929) was an American clubwoman based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Area codes 815 and 779

Area code 815 is a telephone area code for most of northern Illinois outside the Chicago and Quad Cities areas.

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BET

Black Entertainment Television (BET, stylised as BET★) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the BET Networks division of Viacom.

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Bloomington, Illinois

Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of McLean County, Illinois, United States.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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C-SPAN

C-SPAN, an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable and satellite television network that was created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service.

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Calista Flockhart

Calista Kay Flockhart (born November 11, 1964) is an American actress.

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Carl Cain

Carl Cecil Cain (born August 2, 1934) is a retired American basketball player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

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Carnegie library

A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Charles J. Guiteau

Charles Julius Guiteau (September 8, 1841June 30, 1882) was an American writer and lawyer who was convicted of the assassination of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States.

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Charles J. Stine

Charles Jacob Stine (19 August 1864 – 5 January 1934) was an American silent film actor.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Clare Winger Harris

Clare Winger Harris (January 18, 1891 – October 1968) was an early science fiction writer whose short stories were published during the 1920s.

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Corky Hale

Corky Hale (born Merrilyn Hecht in Freeport, Illinois on July 3, 1936) has been a working jazz musician since the late 1950s.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Dan Balz

Daniel Balz is an American journalist at The Washington Post, where he has been a political correspondent since 1978.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Don Opel Arboretum

Don Opel Arboretum is an arboretum located on the campus of Highland Community College, 2998 West Pearl City Road, Freeport, Illinois.

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Donna Jogerst

Donna Mae Jogerst (September 11, 1932 – October 17, 2000) was a left-handed pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

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Dubuque, Iowa

Dubuque is the county seat of Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, located along the Mississippi River.

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Edward E. Laughlin

Edward E. Laughlin (July 27, 1887 – September 18, 1952) was an American lawyer and politician.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors.

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Francis Lamb

Francis Lamb (November 12, 1900 – July 26, 1975) was an American lawyer and politician.

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Freeport Doctrine

The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas at the second of the Lincoln–Douglas debates on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois.

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Freeport High School (Illinois)

Freeport High School is a public secondary school located in Freeport, Illinois, United States.

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Freeport Township, Stephenson County, Illinois

Freeport Township is located in Stephenson County, Illinois.

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Galena, Illinois

Galena is the largest city in and the county seat of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, with a population of 3,429 at the 2010 census.

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Gerald McClellan

Gerald Allen McClellan (born October 23, 1967) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 1995.

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German Americans

German Americans (Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.

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Harlan Rigney

Harlan H. Rigney (June 27, 1933 – November 23, 1994) was an American farmer and politician.

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Highland Community College (Illinois)

Highland Community College ("HCC" or Highland) is a public community college in Freeport, Illinois.

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Homer Hillebrand

Homer Hiller Henry Hillebrand (October 10, 1879 – January 20, 1974) was a professional baseball player who played three seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois House of Representatives

The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly, the bicameral legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Interstate 39

Interstate 39 (I-39) is a highway in the midwestern United States.

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Interstate 55

Interstate 55 (I-55) is a major Interstate Highway in the central United States.

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Interstate 74

Interstate 74 (I-74) is an Interstate Highway in the midwestern and southeastern United States.

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Interstate 90

Interstate 90 (I-90) is a transcontinental freeway, and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at.

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Iowa

Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.

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James A. Garfield

James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881, until his assassination later that year.

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Jason Pearson (baseball)

Jason John Pearson (born December 29, 1975) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

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John Callahan (pitcher)

John William Callahan (October 3, 1874 – February 15, 1954) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher.

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John D. Rockefeller

John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist.

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Joseph M. Bailey

Joseph M. Bailey (June 22, 1833 – October 17, 1895) was an American jurist and politician.

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Ken Behring

Kenneth (Ken) Eugene Behring (born June 13, 1928) is an American real estate developer, philanthropist, animal poacher, and former owner of the National Football League's Seattle Seahawks.

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Leonard Crunelle

Leonard Crunelle (July 8, 1872 in Lens, Pas-de-Calais – 1944) was a French-born American sculptor.

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Lincoln–Douglas debates

The Lincoln–Douglas debates (also known as The Great Debates of 1858) were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.

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List of municipalities in Illinois

Illinois is a state located in the Midwestern United States.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Municipal corporation

A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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Novelty Iron Works

The Novelty Iron Works was an ironworking firm founded to make boilers in New York City.

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Oscar E. Heard

Oscar E. Heard (June 26, 1856 – July 16, 1940) was an American jurist.

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Oscar Taylor House

The Oscar Taylor House is a historic house in the city of Freeport, Illinois.

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Pecatonica River

The Pecatonica River is a tributary of the Rock River, long,U.S. Geological Survey.

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Per capita income

Per capita income or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Preston Pearson

Preston James Pearson (born January 17, 1945) is a former American football running back in the National Football League for the Baltimore Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).

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Richard Wayne Dirksen

Richard Wayne Dirksen (February 8, 1921 - July 26, 2003) was an American musician and composer, who served as Organist and Choirmaster of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., from 1977 to 1988.

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Robert L. Johnson

Robert Louis Johnson (born April 8, 1946) is an American entrepreneur, media magnate, executive, philanthropist, and investor.

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Rockford, Illinois

Rockford is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois, the 171st most populous city in the United States, the largest city in Illinois outside the Chicago metropolitan area, and the city of the 148th most populous metropolitan area in the United States.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Seattle Seahawks

The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football franchise based in Seattle, Washington.

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Stephen A. Douglas

Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician from Illinois and the designer of the Kansas–Nebraska Act.

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Stephenson County, Illinois

Stephenson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Ted Snyder

Theodore Frank Snyder (15 August 1881 in Freeport, Illinois – 16 July 1965 in Woodland Hills, California), was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher (see Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, Inc.). His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" (1921) and "Who's Sorry Now?" (1923).

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Telephone numbering plan

A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints.

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The Journal Standard

The Journal Standard is an American daily newspaper published Mondays through Saturdays in Freeport, Illinois.

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The Lincoln–Douglas Debates (1994 reenactments)

The 1994 reenactments of the Lincoln–Douglas Debates took place between August 20 and October 15, 1994 and were facilitated and aired by C-SPAN.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Thirteen Women

Thirteen Women is a 1932 American pre-Code psychological thriller film, produced by David O. Selznick and directed by George Archainbaud.

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Tiffany Thayer

Tiffany Ellsworth Thayer (March 1, 1902 – August 23, 1959) was an American actor, author and founder of the Fortean Society.

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Trisha Paytas

Trisha Kay Paytas (born May 8, 1988) is an American media personality, recording artist, actress, and entrepeneur.

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Tuffy Gosewisch

James Benjamin Gosewisch (born August 17, 1983), nicknamed "Tuffy", is an American professional baseball catcher in the Washington Nationals organization.

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Tutty Baker

William "Tutty" Baker (1793-1855), credited as the founder of Freeport, Illinois, built a trading post on the banks of the Pecatonica River.

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U.S. Route 20 in Illinois

U.S. Route 20 (US 20) in the U.S. state of Illinois is a major arterial highway that runs from the Iowa state line at East Dubuque at the northwestern tip of Illinois, to the Indiana state line at Chicago south of the Chicago Skyway, a distance of.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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WFPS

WFPS is an FM radio station in Freeport, Illinois, operating on an assigned frequency of 92.1 megahertz as authorized by the Federal Communications Commission.

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WFRL

WFRL 1570 AM is a radio station licensed to Freeport, Illinois.

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William Eckert

William Dole Eckert (January 20, 1909 – April 16, 1971) was a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force, and later the fourth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from to.

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William Rockefeller Sr.

William Avery "Bill" Rockefeller Sr. (November 13, 1810 – May 11, 1906) was an American businessman, lumberman, and salesman who went by the alias of Dr.

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William Thomas Rawleigh

William Thomas Rawleigh (December 3, 1870 – January 23, 1951) was a businessman and politician in the state of Illinois.

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ZIP Code

ZIP Codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1963.

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2010 United States Census

The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeport,_Illinois

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