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Omelan Pleszkewycz. Emil Omelan Pleszkewycz [1] (Ukrainian: Омелян Плешкевич) (also spelled Pleshkewych and Pleshkevich) (January 20, 1908, Boratyn, a village near Sokal, Austro-Hungarian Empire – May 30, 2007, Chicago, Illinois) was a Ukrainian and Ukrainian-American community leader and major figure in the Ukrainian cooperative movement, who co-founded the Selfreliance ...
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is an American political party with a communist platform that was founded in 1919 in Chicago, Illinois. [1] Its history is deeply rooted in the history of the American labor movement as it played critical roles in the earliest struggles to organize American workers into unions, in leadership of labor strikes, [2] as well as prominent involvement in later civil ...
Union was the site of the world's first fully automatic electrical substation, on the current site of the water tower just east of Main Street. [11] Union is home to the Illinois Railway Museum and the McHenry County Historical Society. [12] It was formerly the home of Donley's Wild West Town amusement park, now closed. [13]
Citizens Equity First Credit Union is a federally insured credit union based in Peoria, Illinois, commonly referred to by its registered trademark, CEFCU.. CEFCU was founded in 1937 to serve the employees of Caterpillar Tractor Company.
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Illinois averages approximately 51 days of thunderstorm activity a year, which ranks somewhat above average in the number of thunderstorm days for the United States. Illinois is vulnerable to tornadoes, with an average of 35 occurring annually, which puts much of the state at around five tornadoes per 10,000 sq mi (30,000 km 2) annually. [76]
League State(s) Designation(s) Years Alabama–Florida League: Alabama, Florida: Class D: 1936–1939, 1951–1962 Alabama–Mississippi League: Alabama, Mississippi: Class D
Total Recall is a 1990 American science-fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven (pictured).Based on a 1966 short story by Philip K. Dick, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, and Michael Ironside.