Chester-Kaskaskia, IllinoisShadrach Bond, first Governor of Illinois (1818-1822), is buried in Evergreen Cemetry in Chester. The first recorded settler in the area was John McFe... [click for more]
Elias Kent KaneElias Kent Kane, architect of the State's first constitution, was born in New York in 1794. Kane studied law and began his practice in Tennessee.... [click for more]
Governor Shadrach Bond, 1773-1832Shadrach Bond, the first Governor of Illinois, was born November 24, 1773, in Fredericktown, Maryland. He came to Illinois in 1794 and farmed at New D... [click for more]
