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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. Galena and Chicago Union Railroad - Wikipedia

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    4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. 1862 map. The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) was the first railroad constructed out of Chicago, intended to provide a shipping route between Chicago and the lead mines near Galena, Illinois. The railroad company was chartered on January 16, 1836, [1] but financial difficulties delayed ...

  4. U.S. Route 20 in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    State. Tollways. Scenic. ← IL 19. → IL 21. 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 233.93 miles (376.47 km). [1]

  5. Illinois Route 75 - Wikipedia

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    Illinois Route 75. Illinois Route 75 ( IL 75) is an east–west state highway in north-central Illinois. It runs from downtown Freeport at Illinois Route 26 to WIS 67 at the Wisconsin state line southeast of Beloit, Wisconsin. This is a distance of 41.64 miles (67.01 km). [1]

  6. 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.

  7. Stephenson County Courthouse - Wikipedia

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    January 17, 1974. The Stephenson County Courthouse, located on Courthouse Square in Freeport, is the county courthouse serving Stephenson County, Illinois. The present courthouse was built in 1975, replacing a historic courthouse built on the site in 1870. Elijah E. Myers, who went on to design three state capitols, designed the 1870 courthouse ...

  8. Silver Creek Township, Stephenson County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Silver Creek Township, Stephenson County, Illinois. /  42.24667°N 89.56694°W  / 42.24667; -89.56694. Silver Creek Township is a township in Stephenson County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 696 and it contained 332 housing units. [2] [3]

  9. Freeport Township, Stephenson County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    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]