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    Freeport is the county seat and largest city of Stephenson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 23,973 at the 2020 census, and the mayor...
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    the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 United States Census, it had a population of 44,630. Its county seat is Freeport. Stephenson County...
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  • (1998) Freeport: The City of Adventure, a role playing game setting by Green Ronin Publishing Freeport, California Freeport, Florida Freeport, Illinois Freeport...
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  • Freeport High School is a public secondary school located in Freeport, Illinois, United States. In the 2014–2015 school year, Freeport High School had...
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  • Tutty Baker (category People from Freeport, Illinois)
    as the founder of Freeport, Illinois. Originating from the southern United States, he claimed the land which would become Freeport, then occupied by the...
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  • More spoken articles) The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois, at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas...
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    Freeport station is a former train station in Freeport, Illinois. It was in use from 1849 to 1971 and 1974 to 1981. The Chicago and North Western Railway...
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    Calista Flockhart (category People from Freeport, Illinois)
    You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000). Flockhart was born in Freeport, Illinois, the daughter of Kay Calista, an English teacher, and Ronald Flockhart...
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  • Josef Spudich (category Schoolteachers from Illinois)
    Cairo and El Dorado Springs; then starting in 1942, at Freeport High School, Freeport, Illinois, where he was head football coach from 1951–1954. Spudich...
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  • Samantha Jo Elliott (category People from Freeport, Illinois)
    represented Illinois and entered the Top 20 of Miss USA 2023. Samantha Jo Elliott is an American federal auditor and beauty queen from Freeport, Stephenson...
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    located directly off of Illinois Route 26 between Monroe, Wisconsin and Freeport, Illinois. The town itself is located in farmland surrounded by vale and rises...
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    at the northern corner of Galena Avenue and Stephenson Street in Freeport, Illinois. General Smith D. Atkins designed the monument, which was erected...
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    Galesburg, 15,000 in Freeport, 12,000 in Quincy, and at the last debate in Alton, 5,000 to 10,000. The debates near Illinois's borders (Freeport, Quincy, and...
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  • The Freeport Pretzels were a minor league baseball franchise based in Freeport, Illinois. Between 1908 and 1915, Freeport teams played as members of the...
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    Warren A. Bechtel (category People from Freeport, Illinois)
    Augustine Bechtel was born on September 12, 1872, on a stock farm in Freeport, Illinois, as the fifth child of Elizabeth (Bentz) and John Moyer Bechtel in...
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    Dan Balz (category People from Freeport, Illinois)
    coverage under deadline pressure. Balz was born in Freeport, Illinois. A 1964 graduate of Freeport High School he received bachelor's and master's degrees...
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    Ravi Patel (actor) (category People from Freeport, Illinois)
    autobiographical documentary, Meet the Patels. Patel was born in Freeport, Illinois to Indian American parents, the son of financial consultant father...
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    Western Railroad, came through in 1853 from Chicago and continued to Freeport, Illinois. That sparked the town to be the center of commerce for western Winnebago...
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    William Rockefeller Sr. (category People from Freeport, Illinois)
    North Dakota under the Levingston alias. He died on May 11, 1906, in Freeport, Illinois, at the age of 95. He was buried there in Oakland Cemetery. John D...
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  • 333rd Military Police Company (category Military units and formations in Illinois)
    enforcement unit within the Illinois Army National Guard. The unit is based out of the Freeport Armory in Freeport, Illinois. On September 1, 1997, the...
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  • Knights of the Globe (category 1889 establishments in Illinois)
    organization organized in Freeport, Illinois in 1889. Its originator and founder was a dentist, Dr. William W. Krape, of Freeport, Illinois. The KG secured the...
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    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. Freeport...
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    Charles J. Guiteau (category People from Freeport, Illinois)
    and was hanged five months later. Charles J. Guiteau was born in Freeport, Illinois, the fourth of six children of Jane August (née Howe; 1814–1848) and...
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    William Eckert (category People from Freeport, Illinois)
    from 1965 to 1968. William Eckert was born on January 20, 1909, in Freeport, Illinois, to Frank Lloyd and Harriet Julia (née Rudy) Eckert. The Eckert family...
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    ISBN 0-06-016616-9 "Historic Inn at Grand Detour Burned". The Freeport Journal-Standard, Freeport, Illinois, May 14, 1928, page 6. "John Deere Home and Shop". National...
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    Manayunkcouncil.org. Retrieved 18 August 2010. "City of Freeport, Illinois, Visiting Freeport". Ci.freeport.il.us. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012...
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  • Henney Motor Company (category 1927 establishments in Illinois)
    manufacturer of limousine, hearse, ambulance, and taxicab bodies in Freeport, Illinois from 1927 to 1954. Some operations were moved to Canastota, New York...
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  • Rollin V. Ankeny (category People from Freeport, Illinois)
    American soldier from Pennsylvania. Raised in Ohio, Ankeny came to Freeport, Illinois, as an adult to farm. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Ankeny raised...
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    Robert L. Johnson (category Freeport High School (Illinois) alumni)
    family to Freeport, Illinois, when he was a child. He was an honors student in high school. Johnson graduated from the University of Illinois in 1968 with...
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  • Gerald McClellan (category People from Freeport, Illinois)
    Born Gerald Allen McClellan (1967-10-23) October 23, 1967 (age 57) Freeport, Illinois, U.S. Other names The G-Man Statistics Weight(s) Middleweight Super...
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