Virden is a city in Macoupin and Sangamon counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 3,231 at the 2020 census. The Macoupin County portion...
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Virden may refer to: Claude Virden (born 1947), American basketball player Virden, Manitoba Virden, Illinois Virden Township, Illinois Virden, New Mexico...
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between 1898 and 1900 in central and southern Illinois. The disputes were marked by the Chicago–Virden Coal Company bringing in strikebreakers by train...
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Battle of Virden, also known as the Virden Mine Riot and Virden Massacre, was a labor union conflict and a racial conflict in central Illinois that occurred...
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rural Shelbyville, Illinois. In 1982 he launched 3,000 watt easy listening music station WRVI with a range of 25 miles in Virden, Illinois. He sold the station...
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WCVS-FM (category Radio stations in Illinois)
WCVS-FM (96.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Virden, Illinois, and serving the Springfield metropolitan area. It broadcasts an adult hits...
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Irvington, Illinois – $16,541 Virden, Illinois – $16,541 Rock Falls, Illinois – $16,524 Golden, Illinois – $16,518 Villa Grove, Illinois – $16,504 Goreville...
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boundaries of the modern U.S. State of Illinois since European contact. "INDIAN VILLAGES OF THE ILLINOIS COUNTRY" (PDF). Illinois State Museum. Retrieved 2018-07-06...
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Rosewood Heights – 3,971 Rochester – 3,863 Forsyth – 3,734 Tolono – 3,604 Virden – 3,231 Madison – 3,171 Gillespie – 3,168 Pawnee – 2,678 Washington Park...
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South Otter South Palmyra Staunton Virden Western Mound As part of the rural German Catholic belt surrounding the Illinois section of the St. Louis metropolitan...
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Edward Alsworth Ross (category People from Virden, Illinois)
economist, and major figure of early criminology. He was born in Virden, Illinois. His father was a farmer. He attended Coe College and graduated in...
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Lasting Impact of the 1898 Virden Mine Riot". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 99 (3/4). Journal of Illinois State Historical Society:...
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Kenneth Boyle (category Politicians from Springfield, Illinois)
politician. Boyle was born in Springfield, Illinois and graduated from Virden Community High School in Virden, Illinois. He served in the United States Army...
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segregated black soldiers 1898 – Battle of Virden, October 12, Coal strike; 11 killed, 35 wounded, Virden, Illinois 1898 – Phoenix election riot, November...
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following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Illinois, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license...
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Industrial Workers of the World (category 1905 establishments in Illinois)
mostly ended in 1978 after a failed strike at Mid-American Metal in Virden, Illinois. The IWW also became one of the first unions to try to organize fast...
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Illinois is a state located in the Midwestern United States. According to the 2020 United States census Illinois is the 6th most populous state with 12...
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Lewis H. Thomas House (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois)
Lewis H. Thomas House is a historic house located on North Virden Road near Virden, Illinois. The house was built in 1863-65 for agriculturalist Lewis...
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get the nonstriking drivers off the street. On 12 October 1898, at Virden, Illinois, a crowd of strikers armed with rifles tried to prevent a railroad...
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complete change, bringing in new methods and new talent". He was born in Virden, Illinois, under the birth name of Franklin P. Atherton, the son of George W...
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Warren Ambrose (category People from Virden, Illinois)
of Technology and at the University of Buenos Aires. He was born in Virden, Illinois in 1914. He received his bachelor of science degree in 1935, his master's...
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Julian N. Frisbie (category People from Virden, Illinois)
Frisbie was born on November 30, 1894, in Virden, Illinois. He attended Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois, and graduated with a bachelor's degree...
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Melvin Vaniman (category People from Virden, Illinois)
heights to capture his unique images. Born to a farming family in Virden, Illinois, Vaniman was the eldest of four sons and attended Valparaiso University...
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✔ — ✔ 2 De'Borah 25 Chicago Heights, Illinois "Hey, Soul Sister" — ✔ ✔ — 3 Gracia Harrison 18 Virden, Illinois "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" ✔...
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Henry Calvert Simons (category People from Virden, Illinois)
for A Liberal Economic Policy; Public Policy Pamphlets No. 15. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 22 March 2022 – via Internet Archive...
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WJRE (category Radio stations in Illinois)
President and owner of Regional Media, a Virden Broadcasting Corporation and is licensed to Galva, Illinois. Main studios are located in Kewanee, IL with...
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Auburn Leland Grove Springfield (county seat and largest municipality) Virden Berlin Buffalo Cantrall Chatham Clear Lake Curran Dawson Divernon Grandview...
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playing football. In 1963, Springfield Feitshans entered the conference and Virden High School joined in 1966. In 1967, Feitshans would close and all of attending...
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located the Union Miners Cemetery where miners killed in the Battle of Virden and community and labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones are buried...
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presidents in the United States. Luella Henrietta Wilcox was born in Virden, Illinois on June 25, 1865, the sixth of seven children of Julia F. McLynn and...
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