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Kewanee Downtown Kewanee, Illinois.

Kewanee

Illinois, United States
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Kewanee, city, Henry county, northwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies about 45 miles (70 km) northwest of Peoria. Potawatomi, Winnebago, Sauk, and Fox Indians were early inhabitants of the area. Kewanee was laid out in 1854 in anticipation of the arrival of the railroad. Some of the early inhabitants desired that the settlement be named Berrien, in honour of the engineer who built the railroad, but the engineer instead suggested Kewanee, a Winnebago word meaning “Prairie...

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