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Forgotten tales of Illinois
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- Creator
- Bryan Alaspa ; illustrations by Kyle McQueen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2009
- Physical Details
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- 143 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781596297425, 1596297425
- OCLC
- ocn441193145
- The fort and the city -- Some really bad people -- The strange mounds of Cahokia -- The curse of Kaskaskia, Illinois -- The horrors of Hickory Hill -- The attempt to steal Lincoln -- Illinois' Atlanta and the Mother Road -- Strange happenings in the town of Watseka -- The strange case of Lieutenant Governor A.F. Hubbard -- Healing waters in the Original Springs Hotel -- The mysterious healer known as Anna Bixby -- Ziegler, Illinois : the town that was almost the nation's capital -- The worst sea disaster -- Chicago the "blimpopolis" -- The amazing forgotten cemetery and the mystery of Bachelor's Grove -- Bob Anderson and the flood -- Mattoon's "mad gasser" -- The crash of the Green Hornet -- The fresh water tidal wave -- Tales of Illinois' Thunderbirds -- The Rosemont Horizon roof collapse -- The House of Crosses -- The deadly heat wave -- The deadly porch collapse