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  2. Kankakee State Hospital - Wikipedia

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    As of the end of fiscal year 2010, the center had an annual budget expenditure of US$68,111,000. [4] As of the end of fiscal year 2008, the center had 1,119 employees, 587 residents and an annual cost per resident of $175,844. [5] The Shapiro Center was generating and submitting to the state treasury, 65% of its total operational costs.

  3. Samuel Shapiro (Illinois politician) - Wikipedia

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    March 16, 1987. (1987-03-16) (aged 79) Kankakee, Illinois, U.S. Political party. Democratic. Education. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ( LLB) Samuel Harvey Shapiro (born Israel Shapiro; April 25, 1907 – March 16, 1987) was an American politician, the 34th governor of Illinois, serving from 1968 to 1969.

  4. Springfield race riot of 1908 - Wikipedia

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    Shand prepared the troops to immediately fire low, but Werner reneged on his agreement on the low fire, protested, and began giving contradictory orders to Shand's troops. With the noise and confusion, this resulted in some of the troops firing high, while others fired low, injuring and killing several mob participants, which dispersed the ...

  5. List of homicides in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    1966–1982. 3+. Serial killer whose first murder in 1966 was of his sister-in-law in Joliet, Illinois. [ 38][ 39] John Wayne Gacy. Norwood Park. 1972–1978. 33-45. Serial killer and rapist, also known as the "Killer Clown", who killed at least 33 young men and boys.

  6. Kankakee, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Kankakee (/ ˌ k æ ŋ k ə ˈ k iː / KANG-kə-KEE) [3] is a city in and the county seat of Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. [4] Located on the Kankakee River, as of 2020, the city's population was 24,052. [5] Kankakee is a principal city of the Kankakee-Bourbonnais-Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area.

  7. Kankakee River State Park - Wikipedia

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    Kankakee River State Park is an Illinois state park on 4,000 acres (1,619 ha) primarily in Kankakee and Will Counties, Illinois, United States. Originally, 35 acres (14 ha) of land was donated by Ethel Sturges Dummer for the creation of the state park in 1938. Another 1,715 acres (694 ha) was donated by Commonwealth Edison in 1956, which again ...

  8. Borscht Belt - Wikipedia

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    Rail network in the Catskills with summer resorts, ca. 1901. After the expansion of the railway system including the tracks Ontario and Western as well as the Ulster and Delaware Railroad, [1] the area of the Catskill Mountains became a tourist destination because of the beauty of the landscape, which impressed the painters of American Romanticism, and because of the rising popularity of fly ...

  9. List of people from Illinois - Wikipedia

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    State flag of Illinois Location of Illinois in the U.S. map This is a list of notable individuals who come from the state of Illinois , a state within the larger United States of America . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.