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Crooked City: Dixon, IL

Dixon, IL | 4. A Bad Dream

Crooked City: Dixon, IL

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Dixon City Clerk stumbles across a secret bank account. Mayor Jim Burke calls the Feds. Unlock all episodes of Crooked City: Dixon, IL, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click ‘Subscribe’ on the top of the Crooked City show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A truth.media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Why are you listening to his podcast when they're a puddle to be jumped in?

0:04.6

Come on, let's get outside and take on autumn.

0:09.4

All we need is a pair of wales in a pot of patty for loo.

0:13.8

It's made with calcium and put them in D for immune support.

0:18.4

My mum says healthy mischief needs healthy bones.

0:23.0

And she knows best most of the time.

0:27.0

Take on autumn with patty for loo.

0:40.4

It's the year 1830 and two covered wagons pulled by horses

0:45.2

have been traveling through Illinois for days.

0:49.4

In the first wagon is my great-great-great-grandparents.

0:54.2

John Dixon and Rebecca Dixon.

0:57.4

Then there was a second wagon coming behind it.

1:01.4

Milk cowed behind that second wagon.

1:04.6

This is the former mayor of Dixon, Illinois, Jim Dixon.

1:08.6

Back in the 1830s, his family owned a stage coach business.

1:13.0

They arrived here at the Rock River and established a ferry

1:17.0

so they could get their stage coaches across the river.

1:23.2

The first three years, the ferry operated by Polt.

1:26.4

And after two and a half or three years,

1:29.4

it was turned into a rope ferry.

1:33.0

At one time, there's a news article that said

1:35.6

over 200 wagons were at the river waiting to come across.

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