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    Braidwood is a city in Will County, Illinois, United States, approximately 53 miles (85 km) southwest of Chicago and 18 miles (29 km) south of Joliet....
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    Braidwood Generating Station is located in Will County in northeastern Illinois, U.S. The nuclear power plant serves Chicago and northern Illinois with...
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  • Braidwood may refer to: Braidwood (surname) Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia Braidwood, South Lanarkshire, Scotland Braidwood, Illinois, United States...
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    1883 Diamond Mine Disaster (category 1883 in Illinois)
    On February 16, 1883, the Diamond No. 2 Coal Mine, near Braidwood, Illinois, flooded with snow melt and rain water. Seventy-four men and boys were trapped...
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    Doug Pinnick (category People from Braidwood, Illinois)
    been seen using his fingers. Pinnick was born in Braidwood, Illinois, and moved to Joliet, Illinois, when he was fourteen. He grew up in a musical family...
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  • of its 25th anniversary. In March 2011 Reed-Custer High School in Braidwood, Illinois, became the first school to perform The Phantom of the Opera under...
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    Brent Headrick (category People from Braidwood, Illinois)
    Reed-Custer High School in Braidwood, Illinois, and Illinois State University, where he played college baseball for the Illinois State Redbirds. The Minnesota...
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  • Mazon Creek fossil beds (category Geography of Grundy County, Illinois)
    known for the Braidwood Biota with mostly terrestrial fauna and flora. Pit 11, which was located southwest of the town of Braidwood, Illinois, is known for...
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  • Oregon, the surrounding neighborhood Reed-Custer High School, in Braidwood, Illinois Reed Elsevier, a publishing company Reed Construction Data Reed Business...
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    Kay Cannon (category Film producers from Illinois)
    raised in Custer Park, Illinois, and is the fifth of seven children. She graduated from Reed-Custer High School in Braidwood, Illinois, and received her BA...
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  • Scottish-born US mining engineer and industrialist, namesake of Braidwood, Illinois James Braidwood, prisoner on the St. Michael of Scarborough This disambiguation...
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    Vermilion Coal Company based in Braidwood, Illinois. During the strike of 1889, it was the only mine operating in northern Illinois. A small community of African-Americans...
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    Chicago campus. There are six operating nuclear power plants in Illinois: Braidwood, Byron, Clinton, Dresden, LaSalle, and Quad Cities. With the exception...
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    it by several communities, including Gardner, Braceville, Godley, and Braidwood. South Wilmington came into existence August 23, 1900.  The first election...
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  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles (category Films set in Illinois)
    Louis Lambert International Airport. There was also a scene in Braidwood, Illinois, at the Sun Motel. Rewrites Hughes did during filming made the amount...
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  • Joseph Kain (category People from Braidwood, Illinois)
    Braidwood, Illinois. Kain owned a furniture store in Braidwood. He also was involved with the funeral home, livery and stable businesses in Braidwood...
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    Artie Matthews (category People from Braidwood, Illinois)
    ragtime composer. Artie Matthews was born in Braidwood, Illinois; his family moved to Springfield, Illinois in his youth. He learned to play piano, mostly...
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    John Mitchell (labor leader) (category People from Braidwood, Illinois)
    of America from 1898 to 1908. John Mitchell was born in 1870 in Braidwood, Illinois, a second generation Irish immigrant. He became an orphan when he...
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  • Daniel McLaughlin (unionist) (category Mayors of places in Illinois)
    to the United States, staying briefly in Boston, then settling in Braidwood, Illinois, a town with many Scottish miners, which Macdonald had visited two...
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  • Reed-Custer High School (category Public high schools in Illinois)
    public high school located at 249 Comet Drive in Braidwood, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois. RCHS is part of the Reed-Custer School District (255U)...
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    Anton Cermak (category Democratic Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives)
    parents to the United States in 1874, and grew up in the town of Braidwood, Illinois, where he was educated before beginning to work full time while still...
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    main generator and back-up turbines 0 10 June 16, 2005 Braidwood, Illinois, USA Exelon's Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station leaks tritium and contaminates...
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    southward, entering Braidwood along Division Street. The highway turns east onto Main Street and intersects Illinois Route 129 and Illinois Route 53 at separate...
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    www.eia.gov. Retrieved 11 February 2020. "Electricity Data Browser - Braidwood Generating Station". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 12 February 2020. "Electricity...
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  • High School) in Ruleville, Mississippi Reed-Custer High School in Braidwood, Illinois Richmond Community High School in Richmond, Virginia Other: Railway...
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  • neimagazine.com. Archived from the original on 12 March 2007. "Exelon Braidwood Nuclear Facility Update on Tritium Releases and Groundwater Impacts"....
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  • Mazonia/Braidwood State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 1,017 acres (412 ha) in Grundy County, Illinois, United States. "Mazonia/Braidwood...
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  • William D. Ryan (category Trade unionists from Illinois)
    1949) was an American labor unionist. Born in Illinois, Ryan moved with his family to Braidwood, Illinois in 1865. He became a breaker boy at a colliery...
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    "Davis-Besse stirs again". Toledo Blade. Coleman, Korva (January 31, 2012). "Illinois Nuclear Power Plant Shuts Down Unit After Power Loss". NPR. Retrieved 2024-01-26...
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  • Andalusia, Illinois – $20,626 Clifton, Illinois – $20,618 Bartonville, Illinois – $20,580 Braidwood, Illinois – $20,545 Breese, Illinois – $20,530 Rosewood...
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