NEGRO CREEK - P.C. GONE AMUCK

Stream of conscience: Debate over Negro Creek turns neighborly
Tensions have eased after early tide of rancor

Phillip Mol, of DePue, Ill., wants to change the name of Negro Creek, about… (Nancy Stone, Chicago Tribune )
April 30, 2012|By Ted Gregory, Chicago Tribune reporter

SEATONVILLE, ILL. — Phillip Mol is pushing to change the name of a narrow, meandering creek that was given its official title about the time Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.

The brook is Negro Creek, one of 15 geographic places in the state with Negro in their names. Flowing into the Illinois River about 100 miles southwest of Chicago, the stream drifts along a peaceful 11-mile path amid farms and small towns of Bureau County.

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SO RIDICULOUS IMO NEXT THING YOU KNOW COUNTIES WILL START CHANGING THEIR NAMES