The city of Jonesboro was the site of an open-air debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in 1858.
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IL-146 generally follows a land route of the Trail of Tears, a trail taken by bands of approximately 9,000 Cherokee who were forced to march through southern Illinois from November 1838 until January 1839 as part of a U.S. government mandated relocation.
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