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5 unusual facts about Kane County


Kane County

Kane County (comics), the county-level jurisdiction in which Gotham City is located in the DC Universe line of comic books, named for Bob Kane, the creator of Batman

Southern Utah International Documentary Film Festival

The City of St. George, the St. George Convention and Tourism office, the City of Kanab, and Kane County’s Office of Tourism and Film Commission (along with the Center for Education, Business,and the Arts) were some of the first to support and sponsor DOCUTAH.

Thomas L. Kane

Kane County, Utah was named for Thomas L. Kane, as was the Kanesville Tabernacle in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

USS LST-853

Later in her U.S. Navy career she was renamed Kane County (LST-853)—after counties in Illinois and Utah—but never saw active service under that name.

Weston, Illinois

Weston, Kane County, Illinois - a now-defunct town in Kane County that voted itself out of existence to provide a location for the Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory.


Earlean Collins

After narrowly prevailing in the Democratic primary against Kane County Coroner Mary Lou Kearns, she was defeated in the general election by Republican Loleta Didrickson.

Lythronax

The holotype specimen UMNH VP 20200 was recovered in the UMNH VP 1501 locality of the Wahweap Formation at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM), in Kane County, southern Utah.

West Aurora Public School District 129

The present "West Side" school district covers the city of Aurora with an eastern boundary of the Fox River, a southern boundary of the Kane County and Kendall County line, a western boundary of Aurora's city limits, and a northern boundary of the village limits of North Aurora, Illinois.


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Public school systems in Aurora, Illinois

Due to the sheer size of the city of Aurora, these are not the only three school systems serving residents - some students in the far north end of the city (north of I88 in Kane County) attend Batavia, Illinois public schools, some on the far southwest side attend the Kaneland School district (headquartered in Maple Park, Illinois), and some students in the far south end of the city (Kendall and Will County portions) attend Oswego, Illinois public schools.