List of Boone County, Illinois topics

This is a list of topics related to Boone County, Illinois.

Cities

 * Belvidere

Villages

 * Caledonia
 * Capron
 * Cherry Valley (mostly in Winnebago County)
 * Poplar Grove
 * Timberlane

Census-designated places

 * Argyle
 * Beaverton Crossroads
 * Blaine
 * Candlewick Lake
 * Edgewood
 * Garden Prairie
 * Herbert
 * Hunter
 * Irene
 * Prairie View
 * Russellville

Townships
Boone County is divided into these nine townships:


 * Belvidere
 * Bonus
 * Boone
 * Caledonia
 * Flora
 * Leroy
 * Manchester
 * Poplar Grove
 * Spring

Education

 * Harvard Community Unit School District 50
 * Hiawatha Community Unit School District 426
 * North Boone Community Unit School District 200
 * Rockford School District 205
 * Belvidere Community Unit School District 100
 * Belvidere North High School
 * Belvidere High School (Illinois)
 * Rock Valley College

Churches

 * Willow Creek Presbyterian Church, Argyle

Structures

 * Illinois Route 76
 * Illinois Route 173
 * Interstate 90 in Illinois
 * Kenosha and Rockford Railroad
 * U.S. Route 20 Business (Rockford, Illinois)
 * U.S. Route 20 in Illinois
 * National Register of Historic Places listings in Boone County, Illinois
 * Lampert-Wildflower House
 * Old Belvidere High School (Belvidere, Illinois)
 * United States Post Office (Belvidere, Illinois)
 * Pettit Memorial Chapel
 * Belvidere North State Street Historic District
 * Belvidere South State Street Historic District
 * Poplar Grove Airport
 * Ida Public Library

Landforms

 * Kishwaukee River
 * Tributaries of the Kishwaukee River
 * Piscasaw Creek (Kishwaukee River)
 * Rush Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary)
 * Beaver Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary)
 * Killbuck Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary)
 * North Branch Kishwaukee River
 * South Branch Kishwaukee River
 * Mokeler Creek
 * Bessie Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary)
 * Lawrence Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary)
 * Owens Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary)
 * Coon Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary)
 * Kishwaukee River State Fish and Wildlife Area
 * White Rock Moraine

Historical periods

 * Mississippian culture
 * Upper Mississippian culture

People

 * Potowatomi
 * Mascouten
 * Mound Builders


 * Daniel Boone
 * John Wesley Powell

Argyle

 * George Armour, early Argyle resident

Belvidere

 * Othman A. Abbott, Nebraska politician who grew up in Belvidere and served in Illinois cavalry regiment
 * Lucien Lester Ainsworth, Iowa politician who was a lawyer in Belvidere for a year
 * Carrie Thomas Alexander-Bahrenberg
 * Alfred Elisha Ames
 * Philip Arbuckle
 * List of George Franklin Barber works, architect, designed 15 historic houses in Belvidere
 * Leo Binz, Catholic pastor in Belvidere, later Archbishop in MN
 * Frank Bishop, infielder for the Chicago Browns
 * Emory S. Bogardus, sociologist
 * William D. Boies, Iowa politician born in Belvidere
 * Elmer Ellsworth Brown, principal at Belvidere High School, later US Commissioner of Education
 * Albert Cashier
 * Joe Charboneau, outfielder and designated hitter for the Cleveland Indians
 * Robert A. Childs, politician raised in Belvidere, part of Hurlbut's company 15th IL regiment, briefly lawyer there
 * Reuben W. Coon, publisher of the Belvidere Northwestern and state's attorney for Boon County
 * Thomas Neill Cream, Scots-born serial killer convicted of poisoning in Belvidere
 * Myron Henry Feeley, Canadian politician, born in Belvidere
 * John J. Foote
 * Judith Ford, 1969 Miss America
 * Allen C. Fuller
 * Charles Eugene Fuller, U.S. Congressman
 * DuFay A. Fuller
 * Jack D. Franks, politician born in Belvidere
 * Jeanne Gang, architect
 * William Matthias Georgen, basketball player, captain of national champions Chicago Maroons 1908-1909
 * Boyd Hill, Oklahoma territory coach
 * Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (1815-1882), politician and Union commander in the Civil War
 * Noyes L. Jackson, Illinois politician
 * Kasey James, WWE wrestler
 * Mike Junkin, NFL football player from Belvidere
 * John Lawson (baseball)
 * Amanda Levens, women's college basketball player and coach
 * Edwin A. Miller, Wisconsin politician
 * Richard S. Molony, Belvidere doctor who became a politician, buried in Belvidere cemetery
 * Mary L. Moreland, Congregationalist minister
 * Charles H. Parker, Beloit politician who lived in Belvidere
 * Lowell Holden Parker, Wisconsin legislator, son of above
 * Stan Patrick, basketball player, died in Belvidere
 * Rowland Salley, musician born in Belvidere
 * Albert Charles Schaeffer, mathematician
 * Fred Schulte, outfielder for the St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators and Pittsburgh Pirates
 * Kurt Sellers, wrestler with the WWE (as K.C. James and James Curtis)
 * Cris Shale, football player, lives in Belvidere
 * Rob Sherman, atheist activist, pilot who died in area plane crash
 * James A. Slater, entomologist at the University of Connecticut
 * Joe Sosnowski, current IL representative
 * Ted Strain, Harvard Hornets and UW basketball player, died in Belvidere
 * Roger Charles Sullivan, Illinois politician born in Belvidere
 * Scott Taylor (racing driver)
 * Horace Mann Towner, Iowa politician and Governor of Puerto Rico, born in Belvidere
 * Cornelius Mortimer Treat, school administrator
 * James Waddington, Wisconsin State Senator
 * Ronald A. Wait, Illinois politician
 * Frederick Wolf, Episcopal bishop, priest of Holy Trinity Church in Belvidere

Caledonia

 * Glenn W. Birkett
 * John Early (politician)
 * Murder of Peggy Johnson, Jane Doe murder victim originally buried in Caledonia, now in Belvidere

Capron

 * Zeke Markshausen NFL player
 * Horace Capron, village named for him

Cherry Valley

 * Virgil Abloh
 * John Baumgarten
 * Leroy M. Green
 * Mo Pitney

Garden Prairie

 * A. A. Ames, Minnesota politician, born in Garden Prairie
 * Washington Porter, farmer and real estate entrepreneur, born and raised in Garden Prairie

Loves Park

 * Dick Kulpa
 * Robin Zander

Russellville

 * Laura Andrews Rhodes, opera singer raised in Russellville

Organizations
•	State House District 69 •	State Senate District 35
 * 15th Illinois Infantry Regiment
 * 95th Illinois Infantry Regiment
 * Belvidere Standard daily newspaper (available on newspapers.com)
 * Belvidere Daily Republican daily newspaper (available on newspapers.com)
 * Belvidere Assembly Plant
 * Boone County Historical Society
 * Boone County Museum of History
 * Poplar Grove Wings and Wheels Museum
 * Chrysler Motors
 * Dean Foods
 * General Mills
 * Rockford Park District
 * National Sewing Machine Company
 * Angelic Organics
 * The Real Dirt on Farmer John
 * Illinois's 16th congressional district
 * WIFR-LD
 * WXRX
 * Elgin and Belvidere Electric Company
 * Galena and Chicago Union Railroad
 * Stroh's Ice Cream
 * Eldredge (automobile)
 * Metalith
 * Prairie Cat Mastering
 * Hilander Foods

Events

 * 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak
 * 2007 Midwest flooding
 * January 2008 tornado outbreak sequence
 * 2015 Rochelle–Fairdale, Illinois tornado
 * August 2020 Midwest derecho
 * Tornado outbreak sequence of May 15–20, 2017
 * Nihon Dempa Kogyo, Japanese company, quartz crystal manufacturer; 2009 Belvidere plant explosion

Other

 * Christmas club