Kewanee, Illinois City of Kewanee, Illinois Kewanee Ill 09.jpg Location of Kewanee, Illinois Location of Kewanee, Illinois Kewanee is a town/city in Henry County, Illinois, United States.
"Kewanee" is the Winnebago word for greater prairie chicken, which lived there.
6.2 Kewanee CUSD #229 Kewanee is positioned at 41 14 N 89 56 W (41.241, -89.926). According to the 2010 census, Kewanee has a total region of 6.722 square miles (17.41 km2), of which 6.71 square miles (17.38 km2) (or 99.82%) is territory and 0.012 square miles (0.03 km2) (or 0.18%) is water. Kewanee water fortress as seen from N.
Kewanee was well known in the steam trade for fire-tube boilers.
The Kewanee Boiler Corporation produced and sold thousands of boilers throughout the world for well over one hundred years.
An example of a Kewanee steam boiler can be seen in a scene in the movie The Blues Brothers.
A Kewanee boiler is also the dwelling place for the character Suzie De - Soto, played by Debra Winger, in the 1982 film version of John Steinbeck's book Cannery Row.
The Kewanee High School athletic squads are nicknamed the "Boilermakers." Kewanee Boiler Kewanee has many different types of parks in the immediate area, offering a range of activities such as boating, camping, hunting, fishing, playgrounds, baseball fields, and more.
Parks inside the town/city limits are run by the Kewanee Park District.
Outside of Kewanee there is one town/city park titled Francis Park which has picnic and camping facilities.
Also outside of Kewanee is Johnson's Sauk Trail State Park which offers hunting, boating, camping, picnicking, and other cyclic activities.
Below is a listing of the parks in and close-by Kewanee: Kewanee has had two school districts, dating to when the improve of Wethersfield was a separate municipality.
Although the suburbs consolidated long ago, the two school districts both remain in the town/city of 13,400, divided at Division Street in the middle of Kewanee.
While Kewanee School District #229 has around 2,015 students (533 High School), Wethersfield #230 has about 600 students.
The two schools appreciate a usually friendly rivalry, since both precinct high schools are in different divisions for most sports.
However, this rivalry can turn into very heated in the sports the two high schools do compete in, most prominently basketball.
There are also other schools in Kewanee like Visitation Catholic School: home of the Giants, and a improve college, Black Hawk College.
Kewanee CUSD #229 The District utilizes a several buildings positioned around Kewanee to home different grades of students.
The schools include: Irving School, Central School, Lyle School, Belle Alexander School, and Kewanee High School.
The athletic field is positioned next to Kewanee High School.
Other Wikipedia Articles: Kewanee High School In Kewanee.
Wethersfield has co-oped with other improve schools, such as Annawan High School, in sports such as Football and Baseball.
Other Wikipedia Articles: Wethersfield High School (Illinois) Recently,[when?] the Kewanee School Board and the Wethersfield School Board conducted a feasibility study on the subject of consolidation, which would furnish the town one school district. Wethersfield also instead of a feasibility study with two close-by towns, Annawan and Galva.
Kewanee District #229 - https://kcud229.org/ Kewanee Radio Stations Kewanee Hospital Kewanee Boiler Corporation Hotel Kewanee Kewanee Water Supply with offices in New York and Chicago Albinus Nance, 19th Century governor of Nebraska, was raised in Kewanee The Kewanee Amtrak station serves trains on the Carl Sandburg and Illinois Zephyr daily.
Even with its mostly small size, Kewanee maintains two separate school districts, Kewanee precinct #229 and Wethersfield precinct #230, reflecting the fact that the town/city sits in two different townships, Kewanee Township, and Wethersfield Township.
The two school districts were formerly Township High School districts.
Wethersfield was established by former inhabitants of Wethersfield, Connecticut The former Village of Wethersfield eventually consolidated with the City of Kewanee.
Kewanee Wethersfield recently co-oped with a town ten miles away from Kewanee in football, track, softball, track, cross nation and golf.
Kewanee is acknowledged as the Hog Capital of the World.
Every Labor Day weekend, Kewanee holds a parade, flea market and a carnival to jubilate the title "Hog Capital of the World" Kewanee was used as a setting for an episode in the ninth and final season of the CBS tv drama, "Touched By An Angel".
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclop dia Britannica article Kewanee.
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