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that passes through is named Half Day Road. Half Day School, originally established in 1839 and temporarily closed in the early 1980s after declining enrollment, was modernized and reopened in 1992; it currently serves third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students and is part of
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also attempted to annex a portion of Half Day. The two villages entered a legal battle, filing lawsuits against each other. Eventually, this resulted in the Vernon Hills annexation being approved and Lincolnshire's being denied.
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by horse and carriage. Another, which circulated in the early twentieth century, stated that a chief named "Hefda," transcribed by a
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for the town. One still repeated today is that when the settlement was named, it was a half-day's distance from
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Parts of area infrastructure are still named for the original unincorporated community. The portion of
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flew there to vote in the presidential election (Stevenson was a candidate the same year).
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A Compendium of the Early History of Chicago to the Year 1835, When the Indians Left
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Abbinanti, A. (December 12, 1996). "Vernon Hills retains its title to Half Day".
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While Aptakisic was the source of Half Day's name, local legends arose offering
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Half Day appeared in a news article in 1952 when then Illinois Governor
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chief who allied himself with White settlers during the
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as "Half Day", was the source. Neither story is true.
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Former unincorporated town in Lake County, Illinois
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Index

Aptakisic
Lake County
Illinois
Milwaukee Avenue
Vernon Hills
Lincolnshire
Illinois Route 22
Lincolnshire-Prairie View School District 103
Adlai Stevenson
Potawatomi
Black Hawk War
removal
Elmont, Kansas
1833 Treaty of Chicago
folk etymologies
Chicago
cartographer
Callahan, Patricia
"Half Day Turns Into Boardwalk: Two towns in court over annexation"
"Stevenson Casts His Vote at Tiny Half Day, Illinois"




"Aptakisic"
"Chief Half Day: A Friend to Northern Illinois Settlers"
"DuPage Roots"

"Village History"
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