Putnam County Record

LaSalle County Genealogy Guild will meet July 21

OTTAWA — The LaSalle County Genealogy Guild will meet at 115 W. Glove in Ottawa, at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 21. The speaker will be Heinz Suppan, a native of Springfield.

Suppan received his Associate of Arts from Springfield Junior College, his Bachelor of Arts in History and German from Illinois College in Jacksonville and his master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Springfield. He has authored three books that dealt with Illinois history, “Remember Indian Creek,” “In the Shadow of the Black Hawk War” and “Making Time: The Radium Girls of Ottawa.” He has given several presentations at the annual conference on Illinois history in Springfield. He lives with his wife, Leslie in Ottawa.

The title of his presentation is “The Regulators and the Banditti of Northern Illinois.” In the 1830’s and 40’s, an organized gang known as the “Banditti of the Prairie” was active on the Midwestern Frontier and in particular, in Ogle, DeKalb and Lee counties.

Everyone is welcome to attend the group’s meetings.