West Frankfort is a city in Franklin County, Illinois. The population was 7,275 at the 2020 census. The city is well known for its rich history of coal...
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Frankfort is a village in Will County and Cook County in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a southern suburb of Chicago, and is approximately 28 miles...
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County is a county in Southern Illinois. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 37,804. The largest city is West Frankfort and the county seat is Benton...
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Calvin Newton (category People from West Frankfort, Illinois)
(October 28, 1929 – March 3, 2023) was an American gospel singer from West Frankfort, Illinois. Newton was a boy soprano who took up amateur boxing because he...
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The West Frankfort Cardinals were an American minor league baseball team based in West Frankfort, Illinois. The West Frankfort Cardinals played as members...
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Three Angels Broadcasting Network (category Companies based in Franklin County, Illinois)
Adventist religious, music and health-oriented programming, based in West Frankfort, Illinois, United States. Although it is not formally tied to any particular...
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fictional town of West Condon. The disaster in the novel is closely based on the 1951 coal mine explosion in West Frankfort, Illinois. In 2014, Coover...
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West Frankfort City Hall, located at 108 N. Emma St., is the former city hall of West Frankfort, Illinois. The city hall was built in 1921 to serve the...
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Frankfort is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kentucky and the seat of Franklin County. It is a home rule-class city. The population was 28,602 at...
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The Daily American was an American daily newspaper in West Frankfort, Illinois, in operation from March 1920 until March 2015. In 1987, the paper was acquired...
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International Philippines Three Angels Broadcasting Network - Based in West Frankfort, Illinois, 3ABN Radio and 3ABN Latino Radio broadcasting from their studios...
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Kenneth J. Gray (category People from West Frankfort, Illinois)
represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives from 1955 to 1974, and again from 1985 to 1989. Born in West Frankfort, Illinois, Gray attended...
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of UE plane crash still linger". ECP. Lawrence Messina (April 5, 2010). "West Virginia Coal Mine Explosion: 25 Dead After Massey Blast". Huffingtonpost...
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help West win MWL All-Star Game". Journal Star. "Harrison Bader & Jordan Hicks Earn Cardinals Minor League Honors for July – Benton, West Frankfort, Illinois...
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Illinois 149 at West Frankfort, Illinois 13 at Marion, and US 51 and Illinois 3 at its current southern terminus at Urbandale. Both of Illinois Route 148's termini...
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with buses. Local transit also previously had existed in Du Quoin and West Frankfort, provided by horsecar and bus respectively. Since SCT began operations...
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Illinois. The charter franchises were in the Illinois cities of Belleville, Centralia, Marion, Mattoon, Mount Vernon and West Frankfort. The Illinois...
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David W. McAlpin (category People from West Frankfort, Illinois)
linguist who specialized in Elamitic and Dravidian languages. Born in West Frankfort, Illinois, he received his Bachelor’s degree in linguistics at the University...
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Clyde L. Choate (category People from West Frankfort, Illinois)
for single-handedly destroying a German tank. Choate was born in West Frankfort, Illinois, one of 12 children born to a coal miner. He and his family moved...
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Frankfort Community High School (FCHS) is a public high school located in West Frankfort, Illinois serving grades 9 to 12. The campus consists of five...
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King Neptune (pig) (category Union County, Illinois)
battleship Illinois between 1942 and 1946. King Neptune was born in a litter of 12 on the Sherman Boner farm near West Frankfort, Illinois. Originally...
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William A. Denning (category People from West Frankfort, Illinois)
Denning moved to Frankfort, Illinois to practiced law. He then moved to Benton, Illinois when the county seat for Franklin County, Illinois was relocated...
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in the U.S. state of Illinois. It runs from U.S. Route 30 (US 30) in Frankfort north to the large intersection of IL 120 (Belvidere Road) and US 41 (Skokie...
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Frankfort Township is one of 24 townships in Will County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 57,055 and it contained 19,720 housing units...
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Tim Lee Hall (category People from West Frankfort, Illinois)
Representatives from Illinois for one term from 1975 to 1977. Born in West Frankfort, Illinois, Hall was educated in West Frankfort public schools. During...
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Frankfort is a city in Clinton County, Indiana, United States. It had a population of 16,715 as of the 2020 census. The city is the county seat of Clinton...
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Marcia Schafer Raubach, who, in 1963, was a high school senior in West Frankfort, Illinois, claimed that she was the first to play a record by The Beatles...
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tons in 1918. New soft coal fields opened in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, as well as West Virginia, Kentucky and Alabama. The Great Depression of the 1930s...
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Morthland College (category 2009 establishments in Illinois)
Morthland College (MC) was a private Christian liberal arts college in West Frankfort, Illinois. The school was founded in 2009 by Dr. Tim Morthland and opened...
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Saunders, West Virginia, 1972 (125 killed) Dawson, New Mexico, 1923 (123 killed) Hastings, Colorado, 1917 (121 killed) West Frankfort, Illinois, 1951 (119...
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