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Woodstock, Illinois
Woodstock is a city located northwest of Chicago in McHenry County, Illinois, and is the county seat of McHenry County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The population was 20,151 at the 2000 census. The 2010 census shows 24,770 residents. The city is the home of the Woodstock Opera House and Old McHenry County Courthouse. The city was named in 2007 as one of the nation's Dozen Distinctive Destinations 2007 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.〔() 〕
==History==
Centerville, as it was originally called, was chosen as the county seat on September 4, 1843 due to its proximity to the geographic center of McHenry County. Early area settler Alvin Judd developed a plat for the town, incorporating a two-acre public square, near which a 2-story frame courthouse and jail were constructed the following year by George C. Dean and Daniel Blair. In 1845, resident Joel Johnson's recommendation to give Centerville a more original name was met, and thereafter the town was known as Woodstock (after Johnson's hometown of Woodstock, Vermont). However, the town was listed as "Center" on the 1850 Federal Census. In 1852, Woodstock was incorporated as a village with Judd as President. In response to a burgeoning population following the Civil War, Woodstock was incorporated as a city in 1873. John S. Wheat was elected as Woodstock's first mayor. A vital artery for the growing town was the train line, which allowed for a substantial industrial presence early in the town's history.〔(Chicagoland Encyclopedia: Woodstock, Illinois )〕
In 1895, a Chicago federal court sentenced former president of the American Railway Union Eugene V. Debs for his participation in the 1894 Pullman labor strike. Fearing that he'd be surrounded with too many sympathetic people in a Chicago prison, officials decided to put him on a train for the Woodstock Jail (built 1887), then housed in the red courthouse on the Square. It is said that the Woodstock Jail is where he encountered the works of Karl Marx, which he read. By the time he was released (purportedly before 10,000+ onlookers in the Woodstock Square) in 1895, Debs had become a socialist. He later ran for the United States Presidency under the newly formed Social Democratic Party against William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan, and then again in 1904.〔(Eugene V. Debs biography )〕
During the early part of the 20th century, Woodstock had become "Typewriter City." Home to both the Emerson Typewriter Company and the Oliver Typewriter Company, Woodstock built more than half the world's typewriters by 1922.〔 This industrial boom continued through World War II, but began to gradually decline.
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