a brush with history - Public Art Murals
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The Murals of Ottawa, Illinois!
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Ottawa' Earliest Residents
Ottawa' Earliest Residents
Before French explorers entered the Illinois Valley or white settlers sowed crops and built homes here, the valley was ... more
Ottawa as a Canal Town
Ottawa as a Canal Town
The Erie or the Panama may have been bigger or longer, but the Illinois and Michigan joins those ambitious public ... more
General W.H.L. Wallace
General W.H.L. Wallace
William Hervy Lamme Wallace could have begun the practice of law with a Springfield lawyer, Abraham Lincoln. Instead... more
Peltier Glass Factory
Peltier Glass Factory
In 1886, a young French glassblower named Victor Peltier opened his own company in Ottawa. Peltier Glass... more
Streetscape Reflections
Streetscape Reflections
Ottawans regularly marched in parades, cheered for them or stood transfixed along the route as the city hosted this... more
Imagine & Learn with Bob McGrath
Imagine & Learn with Bob McGrath
Two familiar faces peer down at you from the Jefferson School wall. Yes, the guy with yellow feathers and beak, that... more

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