List of Boone County, Illinois topics
# List of Boone County, Illinois topics

This is a list of topics related to Boone County, Illinois.

## Places

### Communities

**Cities**

* Belvidere

**Villages**

* Caledonia
* Capron
* Cherry Valley (mostly in Winnebago County)
* Poplar Grove
* Timberlane

**Census-designated places**

* Argyle
* Beaverton Crossroads
* Blaine
* Candlewick Lake
* Edgewood
* Garden Prairie
* Herbert
* Hunter
* Irene
* Prairie View
* Russellville

**Townships**

Boone County is divided into these nine townships:

* Belvidere
* Bonus
* Boone
* Caledonia
* Flora
* Leroy
* Manchester
* Poplar Grove
* Spring

### Education

* Harvard Community Unit School District 50
* Hiawatha Community Unit School District 426
* North Boone Community Unit School District 200
* Rockford School District 205
* Belvidere Community Unit School District 100
   * Belvidere North High School
   * Belvidere High School (Illinois)
* Rock Valley College

### Churches

* Willow Creek Presbyterian Church, Argyle

### Structures

* Illinois Route 76
* Illinois Route 173
* Interstate 90 in Illinois
* Kenosha and Rockford Railroad
* U.S. Route 20 Business (Rockford, Illinois)
* U.S. Route 20 in Illinois
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Boone County, Illinois
   * Lampert-Wildflower House
   * Old Belvidere High School (Belvidere, Illinois)
   * United States Post Office (Belvidere, Illinois)
   * Pettit Memorial Chapel
   * Belvidere North State Street Historic District
   * Belvidere South State Street Historic District
* Poplar Grove Airport
* Ida Public Library

### Landforms

* Kishwaukee River
* Tributaries of the Kishwaukee River
   * Piscasaw Creek (Kishwaukee River)
   * Rush Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary)
   * Beaver Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary)
   * Killbuck Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary)
   * North Branch Kishwaukee River
   * South Branch Kishwaukee River
   * Mokeler Creek
   * Bessie Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary)
   * Lawrence Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary)
   * Owens Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary)
   * Coon Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary)
* Kishwaukee River State Fish and Wildlife Area
* White Rock Moraine

### Historical periods

* Mississippian culture
* Upper Mississippian culture

## People

* Potowatomi
* Mascouten
* Mound Builders
* Daniel Boone
* John Wesley Powell

### Argyle

* George Armour, early Argyle resident

### Belvidere

* Othman A. Abbott, Nebraska politician who grew up in Belvidere and served in Illinois cavalry regiment
* Lucien Lester Ainsworth, Iowa politician who was a lawyer in Belvidere for a year
* Carrie Thomas Alexander-Bahrenberg
* Alfred Elisha Ames
* Philip Arbuckle
* List of George Franklin Barber works, architect, designed 15 historic houses in Belvidere
* Leo Binz, Catholic pastor in Belvidere, later Archbishop in MN
* Frank Bishop, infielder for the Chicago Browns
* Emory S. Bogardus, sociologist
* William D. Boies, Iowa politician born in Belvidere
* Elmer Ellsworth Brown, principal at Belvidere High School, later US Commissioner of Education
* Albert Cashier
* Joe Charboneau, outfielder and designated hitter for the Cleveland Indians
* Robert A. Childs, politician raised in Belvidere, part of Hurlbut's company 15th IL regiment, briefly lawyer there
* Reuben W. Coon, publisher of the Belvidere Northwestern and state's attorney for Boon County
* Thomas Neill Cream, Scots-born serial killer convicted of poisoning in Belvidere
* Myron Henry Feeley, Canadian politician, born in Belvidere
* John J. Foote
* Judith Ford, 1969 Miss America
* Allen C. Fuller
* Charles Eugene Fuller, U.S. Congressman
* DuFay A. Fuller
* Jack D. Franks, politician born in Belvidere
* Jeanne Gang, architect
* William Matthias Georgen, basketball player, captain of national champions Chicago Maroons 1908-1909
* Boyd Hill, Oklahoma territory coach
* Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (1815-1882), politician and Union commander in the Civil War
* Noyes L. Jackson, Illinois politician
* Kasey James, WWE wrestler
* Mike Junkin, NFL football player from Belvidere
* John Lawson (baseball)
* Amanda Levens, women's college basketball player and coach
* Edwin A. Miller, Wisconsin politician
* Richard S. Molony, Belvidere doctor who became a politician, buried in Belvidere cemetery
* Mary L. Moreland, Congregationalist minister
* Charles H. Parker, Beloit politician who lived in Belvidere
* Lowell Holden Parker, Wisconsin legislator, son of above
* Stan Patrick, basketball player, died in Belvidere
* Rowland Salley, musician born in Belvidere
* Albert Charles Schaeffer, mathematician
* Fred Schulte, outfielder for the St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators and Pittsburgh Pirates
* Kurt Sellers, wrestler with the WWE (as K.C. James and James Curtis)
* Cris Shale, football player, lives in Belvidere
* Rob Sherman, atheist activist, pilot who died in area plane crash
* James A. Slater, entomologist at the University of Connecticut
* Joe Sosnowski, current IL representative
* Ted Strain, Harvard Hornets and UW basketball player, died in Belvidere
* Roger Charles Sullivan, Illinois politician born in Belvidere
* Scott Taylor (racing driver)
* Horace Mann Towner, Iowa politician and Governor of Puerto Rico, born in Belvidere
* Cornelius Mortimer Treat, school administrator
* James Waddington, Wisconsin State Senator
* Ronald A. Wait, Illinois politician
* Frederick Wolf, Episcopal bishop, priest of Holy Trinity Church in Belvidere

### Caledonia

* Glenn W. Birkett
* John Early (politician)
* Murder of Peggy Johnson, Jane Doe murder victim originally buried in Caledonia, now in Belvidere

### Capron

* Zeke Markshausen NFL player
* Horace Capron, village named for him

### Cherry Valley

* Virgil Abloh
* John Baumgarten
* Leroy M. Green
* Mo Pitney

### Garden Prairie

* A. A. Ames, Minnesota politician, born in Garden Prairie
* Washington Porter, farmer and real estate entrepreneur, born and raised in Garden Prairie

### Loves Park

* Dick Kulpa
* Robin Zander

### Russellville

* Laura Andrews Rhodes, opera singer raised in Russellville

## Organizations

* 15th Illinois Infantry Regiment
* 95th Illinois Infantry Regiment
* Belvidere Standard daily newspaper (available on newspapers.com)
* Belvidere Daily Republican daily newspaper (available on newspapers.com)
* Belvidere Assembly Plant
* Boone County Historical Society
* Boone County Museum of History
* Poplar Grove Wings and Wheels Museum
* Chrysler Motors
* Dean Foods
* General Mills
* Rockford Park District
* National Sewing Machine Company
* Angelic Organics
* The Real Dirt on Farmer John
* Illinois's 16th congressional district
* State House District 69 • State Senate District 35
* WIFR-LD
* WXRX
* Elgin and Belvidere Electric Company
* Galena and Chicago Union Railroad
* Stroh's Ice Cream
* Eldredge (automobile)
* Metalith
* Prairie Cat Mastering
* Hilander Foods

## Events

* 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak
* 2007 Midwest flooding
* January 2008 tornado outbreak sequence
* 2015 Rochelle–Fairdale, Illinois tornado
* August 2020 Midwest derecho
* Tornado outbreak sequence of May 15–20, 2017
* Nihon Dempa Kogyo, Japanese company, quartz crystal manufacturer; 2009 Belvidere plant explosion

## Other

* Christmas club
