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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. List of museums with Soap Box Derby racers - Wikipedia

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    Vintage Soap Box Derby racers on exhibit at Memory Lane Museum, a private automotive and transportation museum located in Mooresville, North Carolina. The Soap Box Derby is a youth-oriented soap box car racing program which has been running in the United States since 1934. Proclaimed "the greatest amateur racing event in the world", the program ...

  4. Ed Schwartz - Wikipedia

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    Waukegan, Illinois. Career. Station (s) WIND (AM) WGN (AM) WLUP. Ed Schwartz (May 5, 1946 – February 4, 2009) was a Chicago media personality who hosted local late-night radio programs from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. He was nicknamed "Chicago Ed."

  5. National Register of Historic Places listings in Stephenson ...

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    Stephenson County Courthouse. January 17, 1974. ( #74002284) Courthouse Sq. 42°17′53″N 89°37′19″W. /  42.298056°N 89.621944°W  / 42.298056; -89.621944  ( Stephenson County Courthouse) Freeport. Demolished; the building shown is the new courthouse, which was built on the site of the old one [citation needed] 15.

  6. Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia

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    Aaron Swartz was born in Highland Park, 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Chicago, [2] [23] into a Jewish family. [24] He was the eldest child of Susan and Robert Swartz and brother to Noah and Ben Swartz. [1] [25] He was an atheist. [26] His father founded the software firm Mark Williams Company.

  7. 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]

  8. Soldiers' Monument (Freeport, Illinois) - Wikipedia

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    98000461 [1] Added to NRHP. June 1, 1998. The Soldiers' Monument is an American Civil War memorial located at the northern corner of Galena Avenue and Stephenson Street in Freeport, Illinois. General Smith D. Atkins designed the monument, which was erected in 1871. The limestone obelisk monument is 83 feet (25 m) tall; a statue of Victory ...

  9. Jonathan Schwartz (radio personality) - Wikipedia

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    Jonathan Schwartz (born June 28, 1938) is an American radio personality, known for his devotion to traditional pop standards. From the 1960s on, he has been a presence on radio stations in the New York radio market, until he was fired in December 2017. He then hosted an internet radio show on The Jonathan Station from 2018 until he retired in ...