Grand Prairie Chronicles
by Vic Johnson
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Description
What secrets lie beneath the sidewalks of Kankakee? Did Kankakee police really carry lassos back in 1900? Who were the cattle kings of the Grand Prairie? Join local historian and author Vic Johnson as he reveals the sometimes haunting, sometimes humorous, always fascinating stories of Kankakee and the surrounding area's past.
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1 |
Burt E. Burroughs Master of Tales and Legends | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2 |
Mosieur Charles Pascal Telesphore Chiniquy | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3 |
Did Kankakee Police Really Carry Lassos in 1900? | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4 |
Cataloging Kankakee County History | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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5 |
First Steamboat on the Kankakee | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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6 |
What Made Them Laugh Way Back Then | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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7 |
What Secrets Lie Beneath the Sidewalks of Kankakee | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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8 |
Kankakee Depot and the Illinois Central Railroad | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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9 |
Madam Nell Clark | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 |
WIBM, Kankakee's First Radio Station | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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11 |
"One of the Most Nobel Men" | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12 |
Once Upon a Time on the North Side of Town | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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13 |
What Was a Poor but Attractive and Talented Girl to Do? | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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14 |
Quarrying of Limestone Once a Major Industry in Kankakee | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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15 |
"The" Uncrowned King of Gooseberry Island" | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16 |
Emory Cobb: Nineteen Century Capitalist | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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17 |
James P. Russell: Out West with the 7th Cavalry | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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18 |
Shoot-Out at the Vallero | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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19 |
The Marquette Tree | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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20 |
People of the Longhouse and the Iroquois River | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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21 |
A Few Thoughts About Winter on the Grand Prairie | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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22 |
Ancient Trail Led to Vincennes | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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23 |
Back when the Bicycle was King on the Road | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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24 |
Cow Meets Automobile on Waldron Road | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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25 |
French Immigrants in the Illinois County | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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26 |
Quebec and the Northwest Territory | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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27 |
Indians of the Grand Prairie | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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28 |
The American Fur Company | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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29 |
Bateaus and Bark Canoes in the Fur Trade | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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30 |
Pioneers French Villages | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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31 |
Virginia's Illinois County | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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32 |
Rattlesnakes and other Grand Prairie Plagues | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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33 |
Notes from the 1930s Federal Writers' Project | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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34 |
The Prairie: Pioneers No Man's Lands | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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35 |
Call Them "Suckers" | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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36 |
The Prairie State Bountiful | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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37 |
Illinois Place Names | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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38 |
C. V. Riley | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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39 |
Legend of the Lotus | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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40 |
A Beverage Called "Stew," "Burgoo," Whiskey, and "Bitters" | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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41 |
When "Three of a Kind" is Said to Have Named a Town | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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42 |
The Danville Salines | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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43 |
Down the Buffalo Trace | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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44 |
Peopling of Illinois | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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45 |
The 1811-1812 Great Earth Quake | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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46 |
French Peoria | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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47 |
Wolf Hunting on the Grand Prairie | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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48 |
Chatsworth Train Wreck | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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49 |
Mount Joliet and Mount Langham | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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50 |
Colonizing Illinois | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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51 |
Customs of the Habitants | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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52 |
Indian Summer | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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53 |
The Cattle Knigs on the Grand Prairie | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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54 |
The First Kankakee County Fair | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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55 |
Waldron and Aroma Park | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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56 |
Massacre at the Bad Ax River | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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57 |
Father Peter-Jean de Smet | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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58 |
The House of Ewing | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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59 |
Father Benjamin-Marie Petit | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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60 |
The Third Prophet, Menominee | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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61 |
A Trial of Death Across the Grand Prarie | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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62 |
Ville-Marie de Mont Real | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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63 |
Slavery In Illinois | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Long Ago Hunters of a Big Game | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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65 |
The First Prairie | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Illinois First City-Cahokia, "City f the Sun" | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Illinois River | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Hamlin | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fire on the Prairie-Bureau County | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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70 |
Behemoth on a Bicycle | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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71 |
The Riverview Historic District | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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72 |
Soldier's Village | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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73 |
Moonpoke, the Crafty One | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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74 |
Gifts of the Last Continental Glaciation | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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75 |
The Prairie Peninsula | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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76 |
The French and the Illiniwek | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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77 |
The Creoles of the Colonial Louisiana | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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78 |
Lou'siana and the Illinois Country | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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79 |
Wings Over the Prairie | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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LaSalle inot the "Voiceless, Lifeless Solitude" | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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81 |
Rush Medical College | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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82 |
The Pioneer Farmers Life | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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83 |
Cholera Comes to Bourbonnais Grove | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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84 |
Relief of the Poor and the Insane | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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85 |
Recollections of an Early Pioneer Farmer | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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86 |
A Heavenly Storm | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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87 |
Potawatomi Pocahontas | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Policy of Pacification and Removal | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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89 |
The Dwindling Potawatomi Estate | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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90 |
Why Didn't the Indians Have Whiskers? | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 90 Episodes |
