• the John R. Oughton House was used to house patients from the Keeley Institute, where over 400,000 people were treated for alcoholism with injections of "bichloride of gold" from 1879 to 1930?

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Keeley Institute

• the John R. Oughton House was used to house patients from the Keeley Institute, where over 400,000 people were treated for alcoholism with injections of "bichloride of gold" from 1879 to 1930?

Dwight, Illinois

• Ambler's Texaco Gas Station (pictured) in Dwight, Illinois was the longest operating filling station along U.S. Route 66?

Illinois

• bishop William McKendree (1757–1835) earned the nickname "Father of Western Methodism" for his travels through his vast see of Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois?
• Meigs Field in Chicago, Illinois, sits on the site of Burnham Park (pictured), which was a serious contender to host the United Nations Headquarters?
• Wilmette, Illinois's Chicago and Northwestern Depot has been described as the most historic building in the village?
• algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa?
• Augustus Louis Chetlain was said to have been the first man in Illinois to volunteer for the American Civil War?
• Benjamin Ferguson bequeathed a fund to Chicago, Illinois that provided for seventeen of the city's most prominent sculptures?
• David Moosman led his high school to the Illinois state championship in football and qualified for the state championships three times in wrestling?
• Indian Village, Chicago hosts the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago, Illinois?
• Peotone Mill, a windmill built in 1871, was donated to the village of Peotone, Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century, and was registered on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in the same year?
• Spoon River College in Illinois was founded in 1959 as Canton Community College?

Barn

• of three churches in Shoreham held by the Lord of Bramber in the 11th century, one partly collapsed in a storm, another is now part of a barn, and the other has carvings of King Stephen, his wife, and a cat?
• the gambrel-roofed David and Maggie Aegerter Barn is the only Linn County, Oregon barn featuring overhang on all sides?
• the Grade I listed Franks Hall, in Horton Kirby, Kent, England, was used as a barn in the 1850s?
• the Charles E. Roberts Stable was converted from a barn into a garage by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1896?
• the Dutch barn was the first non-native barn model ever built in the United States?