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June 16, 1996: The Korean War State Memorial is dedicated at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield

June 15, 1921: Aviator Bessie “Queen Bess” Coleman of Chicago becomes the first African-American woman to receive an international pilot’s license

June 14, 1909: Folk singer and actor Burl Burl Ives is born in Hunt City in Jasper County

June 13, 1925: Ada Kepley, the first woman in the United States to graduate from law school, dies in Effingham

June 12, 1972: Influential Chicago community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky dies

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