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unusual facts about Iroquois County


Iroquois County, Illinois

Rex Everhart, Broadway actor who voiced the role of Maurice in the Disney Film "Beauty & The Beast," born in Watseka in 1920


Lemuel Milk

Born in New York, Milk came to Illinois after purchasing a large tract of land in Iroquois County.

In 1850, during one of these trips, Howard identified a prime tract of land in Iroquois County, Illinois.


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Ford County, Illinois

It was the last of Illinois' 102 counties to be formed, and was created at the behest of some residents of Vermilion County, who complained to the General Assembly that they were located too far from the Iroquois County county seat.

Lake Iroquois

Lake Iroquois, Illinois in Iroquois County in Illiniois in the United States

March 2006 tornado outbreak sequence

In Iroquois County, most of a cattle building was blown into a field just west of Illinois Route 1 near Milford.