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East Wenona, Illinois

human settlement in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States of America

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ5329655 ↗
Source-derived summary

East Wenona was a village in Osage Township, LaSalle County, Illinois, United States. East Winona was located on the eastern border of the city of Wenona in Marshall County. The village was incorporated on May 7, 1908, and had a population of 367 in 1910 and 333 in 1920. The village disincorporated between 1925 and 1927. East Wenona was noted on the 1940 Census map of LaSalle County.

Editorial summary

“East Wenona, Illinois” enters the record as human settlement in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what East, Wenona and Illinois can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1908, 1910, 1920, 1925—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around East, Wenona and Illinois.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“East Wenona, Illinois” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, East, Wenona and Illinois provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5329655. Authority coordinates are 41.057, -89.047. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1908, 1910, 1920 and 1925.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “East Wenona, Illinois”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow East Wenona, Illinois primary sources, East Wenona, Illinois archive and East research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “East Wenona, Illinois”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “East Wenona, Illinois” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.