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Dec. 30, 1903 - A fire breaks out in the luxurious and purportedly fireproof Iroquois Theater

Dec. 29, 1936 – Green Bay Packer Ray Nitschke is born in Elmwood Park.

Dec. 28, 1886 - Josephine Garis Cochrane of Shelbyville receives a patent for the first commercially successful dishwasher

Dec. 27, 1863 - Louis Emmerson, Illinois' 29th governor, is born in Albion.

Dec. 26, 1886 - Civil War General John A. Logan dies

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