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	Pittsfield, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pittsfield is the self-proclaimed "Pork Capital" of the Midwest, owing to the long history of pork production in the region, which fed into the large meat-packing industry of Chicago.
		Pittsfield is the birthplace of TV actor Ryan Carnes and the two-time Illinois state wrestling champion, John Wise.
		Pittsfield, along with the bulk of Pike County, is located in the land between the Illinois and Mississippi rivers as they move toward convergance in St. Louis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pittsfield,_Illinois (1022 words)

	Pike County Chamber of Commerce
		Pike's courthouse in Pittsfield is considered one of the ten most beautiful courthouses in Illinois.
		In the courthouse rotunda is a photograph of Abraham Lincoln that was taken in Pittsfield on October 1, 1858 by Calvin Jackson.
		Pittsfield's post office dates back to the late 30's and is quite elegant, inside and out.
	www.pikeil.org /communities/pittsfield.html (509 words)

	Family of William Arnold - pafg64 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Levi Brewer was born in 1869 in Pittsfield, Pike, Illinois.
		Hortense Manker was born on 17 Aug 1879 in, Pike, Illinois.
		Teresa A. Manker was born on 4 Aug 1888 in, Pike, Illinois.
	cvip.fresno.com /~wsa01/arnold/pafg64.htm (660 words)

	Welcome to Pittsfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tourism is becoming a major factor in the local economy and has been responsible for many changes in focus and an emphasis on new projects geared to those who have a thirst for history or just want to spend time in a more relaxed area of the country.
		Economic development remains a top priority with the city and is implimented through the city's Economic Development Director and on-going relationships with the Pike County Economic Development Corporation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Illinois Main Street Program, and various civic and community organizations.
		Pittsfield is unique in its location, available workforce, untapped resources, and its potential for future expansion.
	www.pittsfieldil.org (234 words)

	Pittsfield, Illinois Economic Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Pittsfield Economic Development Staff (217-285-4484) is eager to assist with new or expanding businesses.
		The City of Pittsfield has developed an 83 acre Industrial Plaza located one mile north of the city on US 54 adjacent to the Pittsfield/Penstone Airport and just 3 miles south of Interstate 72.
		The city also owns a 10 acre tract of land west of Pittsfield that is an Ameren InSite tract, utilities are on site and technical assistance is available for designing a building.
	www.pittsfieldil.org /ecdev.html (512 words)

	Pittsfield, IL - Illinois Florists, buy flowers from your local full service retail flower shops and florist serving ...
		Pittsfield, Illinois Florists have been brought to you by Flower Shop Network, a directory of United States and Canadian florists.
		It is vitally important that you provide Pittsfield, Illinois Florists with accurate, detailed information regarding the name and address of the person to whom you are sending flowers.
		When placing an order for Delivery in Pittsfield, Illinois, it is usually wise to keep the order simple, the less specific you are in your request, the less room for error.
	www.flowershopnetwork.com /directory/IllinoisFlorists/Pittsfield.php (902 words)

	Jackson Grimshaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After working for five years as an engineer for a railroad, he studied law and relocated to Pittsfield, Illinois, where he was a partner in a law firm with his older brother, William A. Grimshaw, for 14 years.
		Jackson was apparently among the group of prominent Illinois Republicans that launched the presidential candidacy of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
		William Grimshaw, described on a companion webpage, migrated to Pike County Illinois in 1833 when the area was still on the frontier of the American West.
	www.grimshaworigin.org /Webpages2/JacksonGrimshaw.htm (4388 words)

	History of Pike County, Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pittsfield, as the county seat, is so interwoven with the county at large that more space is given to the sketch of men in this locality than to others.
		This branch crosses the Illinois river by a bridge, with a draw to pass steamers, the bridge and road being in Pearl township at the Illinois.
		Pittsfield, in 1861, began and in about two years completed a very handsome two-story brick school house now in use, and containing a basement and eight spacious rooms for schools, all filled at times with scholars.
	www.grimshaworigin.org /Webpages2/PikeCountyHistory.htm (14928 words)

	William Grimshaw, Illinois
		William Grimshaw was one of the founders of the Illinois Republican Party and a delegate to the 1847 Constitutional Convention.
		He then came to Illinois, then the far west, upon the responsible errand of locating and paying taxes on the large body of land owned by his father, comprising many quarter sections of the bounty lands in the northern counties of the military tract.
		On the 25th of November, 1833, he was licensed to practice as all attorney and counselor at law in all the Courts of law and equity in the state of Illinois by Samuel D. Lockwood and William Wilson, justices of the supreme court of the state of Illinois.
	www.grimshaworigin.org /Webpages2/WilmIlli.htm (6733 words)

	Jill L. Clopper 08 05 03 News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Springfield, IL - Jan Paul Miller, United States Attorney for the Central District of Illinois, announced that a former chief teller at a Pike County bank, Jill L. Clopper, age 45, of 127 North West Street, Pittsfield, Illinois, entered a plea of guilty today to bank embezzlement.
		During today's hearing, Clopper admitted she embezzled no less than $239,900 from the Kinderhook State Bank in Kinderhook, Illinois, during the period from October 11, 1994 to May 23, 2001.
		Clopper admitted that while she was employed as the bank's chief teller, she fraudulently credited her various personal accounts and then created fraudulent "cash in" memos to her teller drawer.
	www.usdoj.gov /usao/ilc/press/2003/august/080503clopper.html (280 words)

	David Zarefsky \| "Public Sentiment Is Everything": Lincoln's View of Political Persuasion \| Journal of the Abraham ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Illinois State Register cast him as having "stumbled, floundered, and, instead of the speech that he had prepared to make, bored his audience by using up a large portion of his time reading from a speech of 1854, of his own.
		Many construed the language of the Northwest Ordinance as protecting property in slaves already in the territory and in all of their descendants as well, a construction that would have made slavery permanent notwithstanding the seemingly clear dictate of the ordinance to the contrary.
		By 1820, Illinois included more than seven hundred slaves, and in N. Dwight Harris's judgment, "Slavery existed in the territory of Illinois as completely as in any of the Southern States" and was practiced as far north as Sangamon County, then in the early stages of settlement.
	jala.press.uiuc.edu /15.2/zarefsky.html (6241 words)

	Pittsfield, Illinois Public Relations Firms - Publicity Firms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is the Pittsfield, Illinois pr firm directory.
		This Pittsfield, Illinois pr firm featured listing has received 1138 unique visitors in the past three months.
		Click here to learn more about why a Marketingtool.com Pittsfield publicity firm featured listing is one of the best methods of advertising your business.
	www.marketingtool.com /channel/pr/b.461.g.usa/b.461.g.6531.html (268 words)

	ddd - pafg03.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thomas Jefferson JONES was born about 1837 in of Pittsfield, Pike, Illinois.
		Owen JONES was born on 6 Sep 1838 in of Pittsfield, Pike, Illinois.
		Isaac was born on 6 Dec 1815 in Ohio County, Kentucky.
	www.fieldinglangford.com /ancestors/davis/davisweb/pafg03.htm (242 words)

	Buckeye Creek Outfitters
		Pike County, Illinois was first settled in 1820, and has a rich heritage, strong business and industry, and a thriving agricultural and outfitting emphasis.
		The county is bordered by the Mississippi River on the western side, and the Illinois River on the eastern side.
		Below are general directions to the Pittsfield area from the North/East and South/West.
	www.buckeyecreek.com /directions.htm (185 words)

	Pikeland Community School - Pittsfield, Illinois / IL - school information
		In 2004-2005 Illinois used the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) to test students in grades 3, 5 and 8 in reading and math and students in grades 4 and 7 in science.
		The different student groups are identified by the Illinois State Board of Education.
		If there are a small number of students in a particular group in a school, the state doesn't report data for that group.
	www.greatschools.net /modperl/achievement/il/3368 (421 words)

	Main Family History - Person Page 8
		She was buried in August 1974 at Pittsfield West Cemetery, Pittsfield, Pike County, Illinois.
		She was buried after 22 January 1904 at Greenpond Cemetery, Montezuma Township, Pike County, Illinois; I have picture of double marker with Solomon.
		She was buried in 1940 at Pittsfield West Cemetery, Pittsfield, Pike County, Illinois.
	www.main-family.com /main/p8.htm (3914 words)

	My Life
		I was born to the sound of fireworks in Beardstown, Illinois, in 1933.
		But one Sunday morning when I was in fourth grade the mill in Boonville burned down, so we moved again, this time to Pittsfield, Illinois, a small town that has a beautiful Victorian courthouse with a pig statue on its front lawn.
		After Pittsfield, we lived in Independence, Missouri, which yearly holds the Santa-Cali-Gon, a festival celebrating its place as pushing-off point for the Santa Fe, California, and Oregon trails.
	www.jamiegilson.com /mylife.html (380 words)

	Illini Community Hospital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Welcome to Illini Community Hospital, a Critical Access Hospital located in Pittsfield, the county seat of Pike County in west central Illinois.
		Pittsfield is a two-hour drive from St. Louis, five hours from Chicago, Indianapolis, and Kansas City, and an hour from Springfield, the state capital.
		West central Illinois and neighboring Missouri counties are rich in history of such famous figures as Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain.
	www.illinihospital.org (174 words)

	Hendricker Funeral Home
		Lloyd Lyndle Toland age 83 of Peoria, Illinois and formerly of Pittsfield, Illinois passed away at 8:30 p.m.
		He was born August 14, 1920 in Pike County, Illinois the son of William D. and Mary E. Rose Toland.
		He attended Pittsfield schools and graduated from Bradley University in Peoria with a degree in engineering.
	www.hendrickerfh.com /show.pl?id=31 (345 words)

	Freeport, Dixon and Pittsfield, Illinois
		In Dixon, Democrats were scarce; in Lee county, democrats were scarce; in Illinois, Democrats were scarce, consequently the few had to do double duty in the Tilden-Hayes campaign.
		For two hours I listened to a lecture, an oration, that was free from anecdote, free from humorous illustrations, a clear-out discourse, magnificent in philosophy, suggestive and inspiring.
		One of the most remarkable instances is that of Stella Reel who was graduated from the high school in the early eighties and later became state superintendent of Public Instruction for Wyoming and later superintendent of Indian Affairs for the United States.
	www.ferris.edu /htmls/ferrisfaq/woodbridge/20freepo.htm (2067 words)

	Avon Foundation: Avon Foundation/Avon Crusade News
		Pittsfield, Illinois Joins Cities Nationwide in the Pink Line Project: Saving Lives, Saving Communities to Celebrate Commitment to the Fight Against Breast Cancer
		In Pittsfield, Illinois, a proclamation will be read declaring October 18, 2003 as Avon Breast Cancer Awareness Day, after which a pink line will be created next to the Pike County Courthouse.
		The community also plans to organize other unique interactive, educational and health-related public activities around the ceremonial proceedings to showcase their city’s involvement in the nationwide day of commitment.
	www.avoncompany.com /women/news/press20030928_pittsfield.html (625 words)

	South of Pittsfield to the Golden Eagle Ferry
		The Illinois and Mississippi rivers come together below Pittsfield. The Golden Eagle Ferry is at the lower tip of the triangle, below the map.
		Distance to the Ferry from Pittsfield is about 70 miles.
		On the West bank of the Illinois river, during my return up the East side of the triangle.
	www.xrdualsport.com /trip_reports/ferry.shtml (307 words)

	Main Family History - Person Page 11
		She married Andrew Main, son of Solomon Main and Susannah Nye, on 27 September 1838 at Pittsfield, Pike County, Illinois; I have copy of marriage license.
		He was buried in 1948 at Pittsfield West Cemetery, Pittsfield, Pike County, Illinois; I have picture of grave marker.
		He was buried in 1943 at Pittsfield West Cemetery, Pittsfield, Pike County, Illinois; I have picture of grave marker.
	www.main-family.com /main/p11.htm (4922 words)

	a genealogy of the surname Bagby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		NATHANIEL D. was born March 11, 1780 in Virginia, and died June 06, 1867 in Pittsfield, Illinois.
		It was presented to the court by Ann E. Bagby along with a Proof Of Death from the State of Illinois of Pike County, of which I also have a copy.
		According to the Pike County, Illinois Genealogical Society, Ann Elizabeth Rogers was the daughter of Amos Rogers of Connecticut.
	www.bagby.org /r6g1.htm (882 words)

	Farmers State Bank, A Tradition of Trust!
		We are proud to be a part of this community, and will constantly strive to earn the trust and respect of our customers.
		Hull is a farming community situated amongst the most fertile farmland in the United States.
		Farmers State Bank was pleased to open a full service banking facility in White Hall, Illinois, in July 2001.
	www.farmersstate.com /locations.htm (409 words)

	Pittsfield, Illinois Videographers - Videography Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This Pittsfield, Illinois videographer featured listing has received 332 unique visitors in the past three months.
		This Pittsfield, Illinois videographer featured listing has received 268 unique visitors in the past three months.
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	www.marketingtool.com /channel/videographers/b.504.g.6531.html (303 words)

	New-Used-Tractors-4WD-Combines-CASEIH-New Holland-Farm Equipment-Beard Implement-Illinois
		Beard Implement Co., one of the most progressive farm equipment dealerships in Illinois, is your 4-wheel drive tractor specialists, having sold and serviced over 1,760 of the higher horsepower tractors in just over 20 years.
		Beard Implement Co. has three stores in West Central Illinois, home of the famous Lincoln=Douglas debates prior to the Civil War.
		The three stores are located in the town of Prentice (with an Ashland mailing address), Arenzville and Pittsfield.
	www.beardimplement.com /contact.htm (159 words)

	Clopper 05 08 03 News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Springfield, IL - Jan Paul Miller, United States Attorney for the Central District of Illinois, announced that the federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Jill L. Clopper, age 45, of 127 North West Street, Pittsfield, Illinois, with bank embezzlement.
		A summons will be issued for Clopper to appear in federal court in Springfield, Illinois.
		Under the law, each defendant is entitled to a fair trial at which time it will be the burden of the government to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
	www.usdoj.gov /usao/ilc/press/2003/may/050803clopper.html (211 words)

	Pike County Chamber of Commerce
		Historic Pike County, Illinois was first settled in 1820, and has since built up a rich heritage and strong business and industry, including a thriving agricultural and outfitting emphasis.
		We invite you to tour the communities in the county, including the county seat, Pittsfield, Illinois.
		And for those of you dropping by who reside in Pike County, we invite you to consider joining the Pike County Chamber of Commerce.
	www.pikeil.org (143 words)

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		These episodes are taken up one after another, often with the narrative moving from the life story of an animal that has been killed and devoured to the life story of its predator.
		Egypttown on the Ohio River in southern Illinois is the scene of racial violence when the fl community makes its first attempt to integrate the schools in August of 1949.
		Set in an Illinois county that bears landmarks of the Champaign-Urbana area, the story concerns the sheriff's relentless determination to fulfill his duty as he sees it, regardless of the certain dangers not only to himself and his position, but to those closest to him.
	mccoy.lib.siu.edu /illinois/chap5-eg.htm (3138 words)

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