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Verona, Illinois. Location of Verona in Grundy County, Illinois. / 41.21556°N 88.50250°W / 41.21556; -88.50250. Verona is a village in Grundy County, Illinois. The population was 215 at the 2010 census . The community was established circa 1876 by George D. Smith as a station on the Chicago, Pekin and Southwestern Railroad.
The Museum of Funeral Customs was located at 1440 Monument Ave. in Springfield, Illinois, US. It featured exhibits dealing with American funerary and mourning customs. The museum was near Oak Ridge Cemetery, the site of Abraham Lincoln 's tomb. Collections at the museum included a re-created 1920s embalming room, coffins and funeral ...
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Thomson is a village along Illinois Route 84 near the Mississippi River in Carroll County, Illinois, United States. The population was 590 at the 2010 census, up from 559 at the 2000 census. Just north of the village is the United States Penitentiary, Thomson, a mostly-unused former state prison, purchased by the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2012.
The truck and trailer with the crushed cars tipped over, Trooper Chris Thorson told the Tri-City Herald. The load hit the guard rail, dumping the cars all along the roadway. The driver, who was ...
The Morandi bridge in Italy’s port city of Genoa collapsed in August 2018 after heavy rainfall, killing 43 people.. When one of its main pylons fell mid-morning, it brought a section of road ...
After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, a three-week series of events was held to mourn the death and memorialize the life of the 16th president of the United States. Funeral services, a procession, and a lying in state were first held in Washington, D.C., then a funeral train transported Lincoln's remains 1,654 miles (2,662 ...
Tallest verified human in recorded history. Height. 8 ft 11.1 in (272.0 cm) Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man who was the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. He was born and raised in Alton, Illinois, a ...