The Night The Stars Fell - Leonid
Meteor Shower of 13 Nov 1833
1834 Cholera Epidemic - Schuyler County
1851 Cholera Epidemic
- Coles County
Lincoln's
1st Political Speech - June/July 1830 at Decatur, IL
The Expedition of the Donner Party and
its Tragic Fate - the autobiography of Eliza
P. Donner Houghton
1860 Iowa/Illinois Tornado (on our Iowa Site)
Dedication of Lincoln's Tomb - October 15, 1874
at Springfield, IL
Lincoln's Funeral Cortege
- (Located on our Menard
County website)
The
attempted
theft of Lincoln's body
The Chicago Fire - October 8-9, 1871 (Located
on our Cook
County website)
HayMarket Riot - May 4, 1886
(Located on our Cook County website)
1892 Deaths from La Grip (flu)
The deaths of well-known and old
people were clipped from the telegraph columns of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat of Jan. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 &
21
1893 Dedication to the Kaskaskia Pioneers
CARROLL COUNTY ILLINOIS CYCLONE
- May 18, 1898
"Carroll County’s Great Calamity"
as told in the The Lanark Gazette. (Located on our Carroll County website)
1903 Athens Mine Explosion - (Located
on our Menard
County website)
Cherry Coal Mine Disaster - November 13, 1909 - Actual newspaper reports (Located on our Bureau County
website)
March 1913 Floods in Cairo
The Eastland Disaster - July 24, 1915. The third worst maritime disaster. (Located on our Cook County
website)
The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic in Illinois
The Tornado of 18 March 1925
- went through Missouri, Southern Illinois and Indiana
"Small Town, Big Fire" in Erie, Illinois - March 23, 1943 (Located
on our Whiteside
county site)
