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Walker Mortuary Ltd., at 123 W. Main St., will celebrate its 100th anniversary Sunday with an open house. Freeport's family-owned Walker Mortuary has seen a lot of changes in 100 years Skip to ...
Walter Jerry Payton (July 25, 1953 [notes 1] – November 1, 1999) was an American professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Chicago Bears. Nicknamed " Sweetness ", he is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time.
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]
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.
WFRL (1570 AM; is a radio station licensed to Freeport, Illinois. WFRL airs a classic country format and is owned by Big Radio. Its studios and transmitter are at 834 North Tower Road, northeast of Freeport. The station features local news, plus farm and local high school sports programming. WFRL operates 24 hours a day, but at one time was ...
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.
In Sept. 2007, Thomas G. Doran, the Bishop of Rockford, renamed the three Catholic schools in Freeport to Aquin Catholic Schools, and their campuses are now referred to as the Junior-Senior High Campus, the Elementary Campus, and the PreSchool Campus. Traditions. The school's prom is open to 11th and 12th grade (junior and senior) students.
v. t. e. 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 ...