1. Meredosia Roald Tweet 2:37

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Had the Illinois Department of Transportation been better historians, they never would have tangled with the women of Meredosia. In the past, women with a plan have stopped wars and brought down dictatorships, so the good old boys at the state capitol were easy pickings.

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