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Streator

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Streator (strē`tər), city (1990 pop. 14,121), La Salle and Livingston counties, N central Ill., on the Vermillion River; inc. 1882. It is an industrial center with diverse manufactures. Coal, discovered in the early 1860s, was the principal source of livelihood until the deposits were exhausted (c.1900). Several state parks are in the area.


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Steve Swanson, recently retired superintendent of the Streator Township High School District in central Illinois, picked up the wrong wool topcoat on his way out of a conference run by the Illinois Association of School Administrators.
Accompanied by real estate broker Helen Hoover Boyle, another person aware of the deadly power of the culling song, Streator sets out to destroy all extant copies of the dangerous text, eliminating them from libraries and homes, embarking on a quest that takes him to the four corners of the country.
They've been jumping up and down in the streets of Streator, Illinois at this perceived insult to local boy Tombaugh.
 
 
 
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