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BELVIDERE

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 713 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BELVIDERE  , a

city and the county-seat of Boone county,
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Illinois, U.S.A., in the N.
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part of the state, on the Kishwaukee
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river, about 78 m . N.W. of Chicago . Pop . (1890) 3867; (1900) 6937 (1018
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foreign-born); (191o) 7253 . It is served by the Chicago & North-Western railway, and by an extensive inter-urban electric
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system . Among its manufactures are sewing
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machines, boilers, automobiles, bicycles,
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roller-skates, pianos, gloves and mittens, corsets,
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flour and
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dairy products, Borden's condensed milk factory being located there . Belvidere was settled in 1836, was incorporated in 1852 and was re-incorporated in 1881 .

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