title: List of Boone County, Illinois topics
text: # 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
  