Reflections: Wondering why, not just when and how, all those settlers came here

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Pioneering was a dangerous, difficult business, so in this, the year we’re celebrating the Declaration’s 250th anniversary, it’s natural to wonder why so many abandoned their homes and families and moved to northern Illinois, the western frontier of the 1830s.

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