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By Marla Vizdal Collecting can be an exciting and educational hobby, and what people choose to collect can range from stamps to coins to piggy… Read More »Buckeye Stoneware
By Marla Vizdal Collecting can be an exciting and educational hobby, and what people choose to collect can range from stamps to coins to piggy… Read More »Buckeye Stoneware
Thank you to all our volunteers who helped, members who supported and In a buy viagra shop defeated situation, you have to visit to a… Read More »2015 Year in Review
This past fall has been a busy time in the museum’s storage area as volunteers work to document a recent donation of local pottery. Collector JoAnn Icenogle… Read More »2015 Collection News
The December Artifact of the Month at the Western Illinois Museum is the wonderful collection of Holiday greeting cards and postcards which have been received… Read More »Holiday Greetings
Tools of the Trade is a look back to a time when McDonough County was being developed into the communities we know today. Considering the efforts… Read More »Tools of the Trade
One November 29, 1930, three police officers were shot and killed near the southwest corner of the town square. The killer was a burglar and car… Read More »Officers Killed by suspect in 1930
By Marla Vizdal The November Artifact of the Month at the Western Illinois Museum is a collection of photographs of McDonough County Sheriffs. The collection… Read More »McDonough County Sheriffs
South Lafayette Street South Side Square 131-137 South Randolph Built by Joseph Gamage in 1898, this building is known as the Gamage Building or the… Read More »Macomb’s Courthouse Square
The town of Macomb, Illinois, is named after General Alexander Macomb (April 3, 1782 – June 25, 1841). Who was this General? Alexander Macomb was… Read More »Alexander Macomb