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Excerpt from The Past and Present of Woodford County, Illinois: Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &C.; A Directory of Its Tax-Payers; War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; General and Local Statistics; Map of Woodford County, &C Page. History of Chicago 132 Early Discoveries. 109 Early Settlements 115 Education 129 First French Occupation 112 Genius of La Salle 113 Material Resources 124 Massacre of Fort Dearborn 141 Physical 121 Progress of Development 123 Religion and Morals 128 War Record oi 130 t. Palestine Township Panola Partridge Roanoke Spring Bay Worth Page, Adino Page, John W Snyder, John Willard, P. H Whitmire, James S Wagner, Michael page. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.