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Dean Karau's Kewanee history: The Lyman-Lay department store empire

The 2 families dominated Kewanee’s mercantile scene for 6 decades

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Dean Karau Kewanee history column: 1935 Boss Mfg. Co. Strike Part II

The Depression had forced cutbacks in hours per week as well as wages, making it hard for the workers to survive

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Neponset Historical Society puts $5,000 grant to good use with upgrades

The Illinois Humanities grant is meant to help small organizations that had to shut down fundraising activities during the pandemic

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Dean Karau column: New book shows how Kewanee's varied parks created

Karau has compiled a history of how each of Kewanee s parks formed and why the community valued them so much

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In 1935, trouble was brewing at Kewanee's Boss Manufacturing plant

The Boss workers began to challenge a system plagued by favoritism which elicited glaring inequalities

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