Kimball was born in Orland, Indiana and attended the common and high schools of Orland.
The 1910 East Park Dam and other area dams still provide agricultural irrigation water.
At one time or another during the period leading up to the Civil War, Brown, Clark, Benjamin Waterhouse, and Captain Samuel Barry were arrested for violating the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
The Prairie specifically covers the village government of Orland Park, as well as Consolidated High School District 230 (Carl Sandburg High School), Orland School District 135 and St. Michael School.
Orland Township is bordered by Harlem Avenue (Illinois Route 43) on the east, 135th Street on the north, Will-Cook Road on the west (where Cook County and Will County share a border), and 183rd Street on the south (which is also the Cook-Will county border).
WLKI's primary service area includes the cities of Angola, Fremont, Clear Lake, Orland, and Waterloo in Indiana, Coldwater, Bronson and Camden in Michigan, and Edon, Ohio.