Aiken, Illinois

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Aiken, Illinois
Unincorporated community
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Aiken
Coordinates: 42°21′09″N90°24′55″W / 42.35250°N 90.41528°W / 42.35250; -90.41528
Country United States
State Illinois
County Jo Daviess
Elevation
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646 ft (197 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area codes 815 and 779
GNIS feature ID422391 [1]

Aiken is a rural unincorporated community lying in Rice Township in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States, near the Iowa border. [2]

It was originally established as a whistle stop around 1887, and lay along trunk lines of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City Railroad. [3] [4] [5] [6]

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Aiken, Illinois
  2. ↑ "Ashkum, IL - Ashkum, Illinois Map & Directions - MapQuest".
  3. ↑ (27 May 1901). Aiken, The Beautiful, Galena Daily Gazette
  4. ↑ (6 September 1889). A Great Game, Galena Daily Gazette
  5. ↑ (17 July 1906). Building New Town, Galena Daily Gazette
  6. ↑ (7 February 1888). Railroad Items, Galena Daily Gazette ("has been appointed agent at Aiken, the new station at the junction of the Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City and the C. B. & N., about a mile and a half south of Galena Junction)


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