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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.
UTC-5 ( CDT) FIPS code. 17-177-27897. Freeport Township is located in Stephenson County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 25,638 and it contained 12,396 housing units. [2] Freeport Township is coterminous with City of Freeport. It is one of seventeen coterminous townships in Illinois. [3]
Oscar Taylor House. / 42.28444°N 89.61417°W / 42.28444; -89.61417. The Oscar Taylor House is a historic house in the city of Freeport, Illinois. The house was built in 1857 and served as a "station" on the Underground Railroad during the American Civil War. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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.
Freeport High School is a public secondary school located in Freeport, Illinois, United States. Demographics [ edit ] In the 2014–2015 school year, Freeport High School had a population of 55.2% white students, followed by 23.7% black students, 10.7% students of two or more races, 8.7% Hispanic students, and 1.6% of students grouped as "other ...
December 28, 2023 at 2:15 AM. Freeport's Lincoln Mall will be home to a longtime thrift store in the city. Amity's Attic closed up shop at 22 W. Main St. on Dec. 16 and will be opening up inside ...
Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. 1862 map. The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad ( G&CU) was a railroad running west from Chicago to Freeport, Illinois, never reaching Galena, Illinois. A later route went to Clinton, Iowa. Incorporated in 1836, the G&CU became the first railroad built out from Chicago.
The Freeport City Hall, located at 230 West Stephenson Street, was the historic city hall of Freeport, Illinois. History [ edit ] The city hall was built in 1899 to replace the previous city hall, which the city built in 1868 and had outgrown.