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city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Stephenson county, See also:Illinois, in the N.W. See also:part of the See also:state, on the Pecatonica See also:river, 30 M. from its mouth and about Ioc\m. N.W. of See also:Chicago. Pop. (189o) 10,189; (1900) 13,258, of whom 2264 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 17,567. The city is served by the Chicago & See also:North-Western, the Chicago, See also:Milwaukee & St See also:Paul, and the Illinois Central See also:railways, and by the See also:Rockford & Interurban electric railway. The Illinois Central connects at See also:South See also:Free-See also:port, about 3 M. S. of Freeport, with the Chicago See also:Great Western railway. Among Freeport's manufactures are foundry and See also:machine See also:shop products, carriages, hardware specialties, patent medicines, windmills, engines, incubators, See also:organs, See also:beer and shoes. The Illinois Central has large railway repair shops here. The See also:total value of the city's factory product in 1905 was $3,109,302, an increase of 14.8% since 1900: In the surrounding See also:country cereals are grown, and See also:swine and poultry are raised. Dairying is an important See also:industry also. The city has a See also:Carnegie library (1901).

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Court See also:House Square is a See also:monument, 8o ft. high, in memory of the soldiers who died in the See also:Civil See also:War. At the corner of See also:Douglas See also:Avenue and Mechanic See also:Street a See also:granite See also:boulder commemorates the famous debate between See also:Abraham See also:Lincoln and See also:Stephen A. Douglas, held in Freeport on the 27th of See also:August 1858. In that debate Lincoln emphasized the See also:differences between himself and the See also:radical See also:anti-See also:slavery men, and in See also:answer to one of Lincoln's questions Douglas declared that the See also:people of a territory, through " unfriendly " See also:laws or denial of legislative See also:protection, could exclude slavery, and that " it matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide on the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a territory under the Constitution." This, the so-called " Freeport See also:doctrine," greatly weakened Douglas in the presidential See also:election of 186o. Freeport was settled in 1835, was laid out and named Winneshiek in 1836, and in 1837 under its See also:present name was made the county-seat of Stephenson county. ' It was incorporated as a See also:town in 185o and chartered as a city in 1855.

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