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1839 establishments in Illinois
Mining communities in Illinois

Aisin

is a Japanese corporation that develops and produces components and systems for the automotive industry.

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is the national passenger railroad company of the United States.

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Area codes 618 and 730

Area codes 618 and 730 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for southern Illinois.

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Babe Borton

William Baker "Babe" Borton (August 14, 1888 – July 29, 1954) was an American Major League Baseball first baseman.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Burlington Northern Railroad

The Burlington Northern Railroad was a United States-based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads.

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Carbondale, Illinois

Carbondale is a city in Jackson County, Illinois, United States, within the Southern Illinois region informally known as "Little Egypt". Marion, Illinois and Carbondale, Illinois are cities in Illinois.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America and some Caribbean islands.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. Marion, Illinois and Chicago are cities in Illinois and county seats in Illinois.

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Chicago White Sox

The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago.

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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City commission government

City commission government is a form of local government in the United States.

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Cleveland Guardians

The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland.

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Combined statistical area

Combined statistical area (CSA) is a United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) term for a combination of adjacent metropolitan (MSA) and micropolitan statistical areas (μSA) across the 50 U.S. states and the territory of Puerto Rico that can demonstrate economic or social linkage.

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Conrad Allen

Conrad Keene Allen (born 1968 in Marion, Illinois) is an American inventor and Exploration Geologist.

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Contour Airlines

Contour Airlines is an independent regional airline headquartered at Smyrna Airport in Smyrna, Tennessee, United States.

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Cory Bailey

Phillip Cory Bailey (born January 24, 1971) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball between and.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railway

The Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railway (formerly American Rail Heritage, Ltd. d/b/a Crab Orchard, and Egyptian Railroad Company) is a Class III common carrier shortline railroad that operates in the cities of Marion and Herrin in the Southern Illinois region.

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Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge

Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge is a 43,890 acre (180 km2) National Wildlife Refuge primarily in southwestern Williamson County, but with small extensions into adjacent eastern Jackson and northeastern Union counties of southern Illinois, in the United States.

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Cracked.com

Cracked.com is an American website that was based on ''Cracked'' magazine.

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Creal Springs, Illinois

Creal Springs is a city in Williamson County, Illinois, United States. Marion, Illinois and Creal Springs, Illinois are cities in Illinois.

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Dolph Stanley

Dolph Stanley (January 23, 1905 – July 9, 1990) was an American basketball player and coach.

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Edward E. Denison

Edward Everett Denison (August 28, 1873 – June 17, 1953) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Francis Marion

Brigadier General Francis Marion (1732 – February 27, 1795), also known as the "Swamp Fox", was an American military officer, planter, and politician who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War.

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Franklin County, Illinois

Franklin County is a county in Southern Illinois.

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Frontier League

The Frontier League (FL; French: Ligue Frontière, LF) is a professional baseball league in North America comprising 16 teams; 13 in the United States and 3 in Canada.

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Fujita scale

The Fujita scale (F-Scale), or Fujita–Pearson scale (FPP scale), is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation.

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Gene Johns

Harold Gene Johns (October 6, 1927 – August 11, 1984) was an American politician and Democratic member of the Illinois Senate.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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Greyhound Lines

Greyhound Lines, Inc. (Greyhound) is a company that operates the largest intercity bus service in North America.

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Harrisburg, Illinois

Harrisburg is a city in and the county seat of Saline County, Illinois, United States. Marion, Illinois and Harrisburg, Illinois are cities in Illinois, county seats in Illinois and Mining communities in Illinois.

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Herrin, Illinois

Herrin is a city in Williamson County, Illinois. Marion, Illinois and Herrin, Illinois are cities in Illinois.

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Home rule in the United States

Home rule in the United States relates to the authority of a constituent part of a U.S. state to exercise powers of governance; i.e.: whether such powers must be specifically delegated to it by the state (typically by legislative action) or are generally implicitly allowed unless specifically denied by state-level action.

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Homer M. Butler

Homer Marx Butler (October 15, 1904 – May 24, 1982) was an American newspaper editor, journalist, and politician.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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James Felts

James Hugh Felts (February 1, 1866–January 12, 1932) was an American newspaper editor and politician.

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Jason Pargin

Jason Pargin (born January 10, 1975) is an American humor writer who formerly wrote under the name David Wong. He is the former executive editor of humor website Cracked.com, a recurring guest on The Cracked Podcast, and has written seven novels: John Dies at the End (2007), This Book Is Full of Spiders (2012), Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits (2015), What the Hell Did I Just Read (2017), Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick (2020), If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (2022), and Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia (2023).

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Jim Reed (racing driver)

Jim Reed (February 21, 1926 – June 29, 2019) was a NASCAR Grand National driver.

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John Dies at the End

John Dies at the End is a comic lovecraftian horror novel written by Jason Pargin (a.k.a. David Wong) that was first published online as a webserial beginning in 2001, then as an edited manuscript in 2004, and a printed paperback in 2007, published by Permuted Press.

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Johnson County, Illinois

Johnson County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Judith Ivey

Judith Lee Ivey (born September 4, 1951) is an American actress and theatre director.

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Kanie

is a town located in Ama District, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

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Lake of Egypt

Lake of Egypt is a reservoir in the Little Egypt region of the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Lance Lynn

Michael Lance Lynn (born May 12, 1987) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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List of counties in Illinois

There are 102 counties in Illinois.

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Los Angeles Dodgers

The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles.

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Madelon Baker

Georgia Madelon BakerArmstrong, Alice Katt (1950).

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.

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Marion Community Unit School District 2 is a school district headquartered in Marion, Illinois.

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Marion High School (Illinois)

Marion High School is a high school located in the growing city of Marion, Illinois, serving the Marion Unit 2 School District.

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Marion Stadium

Marion Stadium (formerly known as Rent One Park and Mtn. Dew Stadium) is a stadium in Marion, Illinois, that was completed in 2007.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Medal of Honor

The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians, and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor.

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Milwaukee Brewers

The Milwaukee Brewers are an American professional baseball team based in Milwaukee.

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Minnesota Twins

The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis.

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Mount Vernon, Illinois

Mount Vernon is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Illinois, United States. Marion, Illinois and Mount Vernon, Illinois are cities in Illinois and county seats in Illinois.

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Nancy Elizabeth Brown

Vice Admiral Nancy E. Brown (born 1952) is a retired vice admiral in the United States Navy who most recently served as the Director, Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems (C4 Systems), The Joint Staff.

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New York Yankees

The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.

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O'Hare International Airport

Chicago O'Hare International Airport is a major international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, United States, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately northwest of the Loop business district.

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O. H. Burnett

Otis Herman Burnett (January 7, 1872–August 10, 1906) was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician.

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Oakland Athletics

The Oakland Athletics (often referred to as the Oakland A's) are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California.

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Paducah, Kentucky

Paducah is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Phillip McGilton

Phillip McGilton (born October 6, 1978) is an American professional stock car racing driver and businessman.

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Pitcher

In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Professional baseball

Professional baseball is organized baseball in which players are selected for their talents and are paid to play for a specific team or club system.

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Prospect League

The Prospect League is a collegiate summer baseball league comprising teams of college players from North America and beyond.

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Public transport

Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Ray Fosse

Raymond Earl Fosse (April 4, 1947 – October 13, 2021) was an American professional baseball player and television sports color commentator.

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Richard G. Wilson

Richard Gene Wilson (August 19, 1931 – October 21, 1950) was a United States Army soldier and a posthumous recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Korean War.

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Rides Mass Transit District

Rides Mass Transit District (RMTD) is a provider of mass transportation in Southern Illinois, primarily serving Carbondale, Harrisburg and Marion.

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Robert L. Butler

Robert Lee Butler (January 23, 1927 – April 22, 2019) served as the mayor of Marion, Illinois from May 1963 until he resigned on January 31, 2018, for health reasons.

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Roller derby

Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters.

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Seattle Mariners

The Seattle Mariners are an American professional baseball team based in Seattle.

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Shawnee Hills AVA

The Shawnee Hills AVA is an American Viticultural Area located between the Mississippi River and the Ohio River in southern Illinois.

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Shawnee National Forest

The Shawnee National Forest is a United States National Forest located in the Ozark and Shawnee Hills of Southern Illinois, United States.

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South Central Illinois Mass Transit District

South Central Illinois Mass Transit District is a provider of mass transportation in Clinton, Franklin, Jefferson, Marion, Perry and Washington counties in Illinois, with deviated fixed-routes serving numerous cities, as well as demand-response service across the counties.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion,_Illinois

Also known as History of Marion, Illinois, Marion, IL, Marion, Ill., UN/LOCODE:USMWA.

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1839 establishments in Illinois

Mining communities in Illinois

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