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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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  • The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois. Former...
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  • Tutty Baker (category People from Freeport, Illinois)
    credited as the founder of Freeport, Illinois. Originating from the South, he claimed the land which would become Freeport, then occupied by the Winnebago...
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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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    Galesburg, 15,000 in Freeport, 12,000 in Quincy, and at the last one, in Alton, 5,000 to 10,000. The debates near Illinois's borders (Freeport, Quincy, and Alton)...
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    Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (category Defunct Illinois railroads)
    (G&CU) was a railroad running west from Chicago to Freeport, Illinois, never reaching Galena, Illinois. A later route went to Clinton, Iowa. Incorporated...
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    branch to Freeport, Illinois. It diverged from the main line at West Chicago and had stations at Elgin, Marengo, Belvidere, Rockford, Freeport, and other...
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    The Freeport Subdivision is a railroad line in Illinois which runs from 16th Street in downtown Chicago to Freeport, Illinois. It is owned and operated...
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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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    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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    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)...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • Trisha Paytas (category Freeport High School (Illinois) alumni)
    was born on May 8, 1988, in Riverside, California, before moving to Freeport, Illinois at age 3. She has two siblings; an older brother and a younger, maternal...
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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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  • 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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    was $21,392. The Rockford–Freeport–Rochelle Combined Statistical Area is made up of four counties in north-central Illinois. The statistical area includes...
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    Bus.) is a business route of US 20 around Freeport, Illinois. In 1988, US 20 was rerouted away from Freeport after a bypass was completed. The former routing...
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  • Gerald McClellan (category People from Freeport, Illinois)
    Born Gerald Allen McClellan (1967-10-23) October 23, 1967 (age 56) Freeport, Illinois, U.S. Statistics Weight(s) Middleweight Super middleweight Height...
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    Louella Parsons (category People from Freeport, Illinois)
    she feuded for years. Parsons was born Louella Rose Oettinger in Freeport, Illinois, the daughter of Helen (nee; Stine) and Joshua Oettinger. Her father...
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    from the 1919 Annual of the Freeport High School, Freeport, Illinois Born (1902-01-07)January 7, 1902 Freeport, Illinois Died September 25, 1950(1950-09-25)...
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  • Titan Tire Corporation (category Companies based in Adams County, Illinois)
    agricultural tires under license. This acquisition included the plant in Freeport, Illinois. Titan again expanded in 2006 with the purchase of Continental AG's...
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