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PANA

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 663 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PANA  , a

city of Christian county,
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Illinois, U.S.A., in the central
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part of the state . Pop . (I goo) 5530 (727 being
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foreign-born); (1910) 6055 . It is served by the Baltimore &
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Ohio Southwestern, the Cleveland,
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Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, the Illinois Central and the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
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railways . It is in the Illinois
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coal region, and coal-
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mining is the most important industry; the city is also a
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shipping point for hay and grain grown in the vicinity . Pana was incorporated in 1857, and was reincorporated in 1877 . Its name is said to be a corrupted form of Pani " (Pawnee), the name of a tribe of Indians .

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