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Two light-skinned men stand outside a military vehicle. They are parked on a dirt road with a masonry building with large arched windows behind them.

Dr. E.D. Churchill, savior to wounded GIs
Winning a war is not only about killing—it’s also about saving lives, especially if those lives...

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Springtime once meant return of prairie flowers
Novelist, poet, essayist and farmer Wendell Berry has said that we live in a time of “punishmen...

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Weston Cemetery Prairie window to lost world
In 1971, C.E. “Bud” Wink and Dr. Lee Garber of Fairbury undertook an investigation of five-acre...

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‘I-house’ early Corn Belt architectural style
Along Illinois Route 165 between the rural communities of Cooksville and Colfax in eastern McLe...

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Chenoa Airport, 1948
The most recent Sunday Pantagraph “Page from Our Past” installment examined the fascinating his...

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Collection Highlight: Trench Art
The Museum owns two unique and personal pieces of history that provide a glimpse of how individ...

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Photo of the Week, 71: Grim Reapers Pay Respects to Fallen Comrade
On June 16, 1970, about 50 members of the Grim Reapers Motorcycle Club led a funeral procession...

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Photo of the Week, 84: 'Bloody 66' claims 4 victims in early February 1939
On Friday, February 3, 1939, four area men were killed in a late evening automobile accident on...

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Tot Tries Tiny Tractor August 1947
Three-year-old Janet Schultze gets comfortable on her father Floyd Schultze’s two-cylinder, nin...

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Farming in the Great Corn Belt

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1946 to 2000: Livestock Consolidation
After WWII profits for those raising livestock began to decrease. As a result, so too did the n...

Digital Exhibit

Oral Histories

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Lucy Woosley

Oral History

Publications

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chenoa, McLean County, Illinois 1885

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chenoa, McLean County, Illinois 1892

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chenoa, McLean County, Illinois 1894

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chenoa, McLean County, Illinois 1901

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chenoa, McLean County, Illinois 1907

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chenoa, McLean County, Illinois 1914

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