1940 aerial photograph of northern section of Brooklyn, Illinois. Early settlements homes of the 1820s and 1830s were very likely located in this area.
Wood cut image of the Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lovejoy, later called Brooklyn, Illinois. The town was also named after the martyred abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy, killed in 1837 in Alton, Illinois.
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