“They were called “hard roads” and they were a rarity in Illinois in the first two decades of the century, but Marion was a center of a movement to get Egypt out of the mud. Continue reading
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The following is a series of articles appearing in the Marion Daily Republican involving the murder of Cecil Jenkins in May 1970, one of a number of unsolved cold cases in Marion, Illinois. Continue reading
Milo Erwin’s “History of Williamson County”, published in 1875 details the first murders occurring here and types of crime in the county up to about 1874. … Continue reading
This list shows the locations and numbers of licensed vehicles in Southern Illinois cities in the period from 1907 to early 1909 as taken from an Illinois Secretary of State Report. I defined Southern Illinois to be defined as a line parallel to the Alton area. There were a total of 10,799 licensed automobiles in the State of Illinois. Continue reading
I encountered an interesting record in the Illinois Digital Archives that proved to be a list of automobile licenses issued by Illinois covering 1907 and up to early 1909 by the Secretary of State. There were a total of 10,799 licensed automobiles in the State of Illinois listed. Continue reading
