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- ↑ "Essex Township" (Map). Atlas of Kankakee County. J. H. Beers & Co. 1883.
- ↑ Klasey, Jack (June 18, 2016). "These Kankakee County towns vanished with hardly a trace" . Daily Journal (News article). Kankakee, IL. Archived from the original on May 6, 2020. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
In the early 1880s, three towns sprung up to house miners exploiting a seam of coal...They lived in the towns of Tracy, Oklahoma and Clarke City. The first two settlements were relatively small, amounting to possibly a dozen buildings each...When the coal seam ran out around 1900, the towns were doomed. Tracy and Oklahoma disappeared quickly...
- ↑ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/1892_IC.jpg
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