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2. Freeport, Illinois - Wikipedia

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   Freeport, Illinois. Location of Freeport in Stephenson County, Illinois. /  42.29194°N 89.63028°W  / 42.29194; -89.63028. Paint the Port is an annual festival in Downtown Freeport held in September and hosted by the Freeport Art Museum. Freeport is home to the mini-Wrigley replica, Little Cubs Field.

3. Michael Krebs - Wikipedia

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   Krebs portrayed Abraham Lincoln in film and presentations throughout the United States since 1994 offering insight to the 16th President's life and times. Krebs was a native of Freeport, Illinois, and former company member of New American Theater in Rockford, Illinois. He was cast as Abraham Lincoln in 2014 film Field of Lost Shoes.

4. Tutty Baker - Wikipedia

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   Tutty Baker. William "Tutty" Baker (1793-1855), was an American pioneer credited as the founder of Freeport, Illinois. Originating from the South, he claimed the land which would become Freeport, then occupied by the Winnebago tribe, in 1827, though he did not immediately build a homestead. [1] He received the nickname "Tutty" from the tribe ...

5. Warren A. Bechtel - Wikipedia

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   Warren Augustine Bechtel was born on September 12, 1872, on a stock farm in Freeport, Illinois, as the fifth child of Elizabeth (Bentz) and John Moyer Bechtel in a family of two boys and five girls. In 1884, his family moved to Kansas. In 1891, Warren graduated from Peabody High School in Peabody, Kansas.

6. Longtime downtown thrift store moving into Freeport's ... - AOL

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   The new space inside the Lincoln Mall will allow more space for donated items, according to the press release. Amity's Attic opened 27 years ago in Freeport as part of the Amity Society of Freeport.

7. Illinois Town's $13 Million Water System Will Remove PFAS - AOL

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   Freeport is a small industrial city of 24,000 in northwest Illinois. For a price tag of $13 million, it's building a new public water system to tap deep into new, uncontaminated water sources.