Jeff DunnOct 9, 2021Business / IndustryIllinois Power Roots in HillsboroIllinois Power Company traces its ancestry back to Dec. 14, 1892 when Mayor Charles Ramsey and members of the Hillsboro city council granted
Jeff DunnSep 3, 2021HomesTearing Down An Old LandmarkFritz Weingand, Jr., who recently purchased the old J. T. Eccles residence, corner of Water and Berry Street, and just east of the...
Jeff DunnSep 19, 2015CoaltonCoalton Illinois HistoryThe Nason Coal Company sank a mine a miles west from the corporate limits of Nokomis about 1913. Interested people laid out a town plot,...
Jeff DunnSep 20, 2014HillsboroWelge Furniture FactoryThis is the bill for my great, great grandmothers funeral. She passed away September 1, 1913 at the age of 77 years. Total cost for the...