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Welcome to Illinois Windmills |
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If you have any information about any of the windmills (even those already listed), including articles, photographs, postcards, pamphlets, records, or even personal memories, please feel free to contact the WebMaster at: info@illinoiswindmills.org.
News and Updates
Model Fischer Windmill under construction
After ten years of talk, research, and planning, I am finally getting around to building a working 1/12 scale model of the Fischer Windmill. Click here for the construction progress.
Redesigned “Tourism and Links” Page
You asked for it; you got it. Illinois Windmills has branched out to include surviving custom windmills across the United States of America. The tourism page now features full-length profiles with history and photographs included wherever possible.
Redesigned “Custom Windmills” Page Surviving and Destroyed Windmills are no longer located on two separate pages; they are all together, and with drop-down menus. Now featuring 45 custom windmills and counting!
“Architecture of Windmills” Read how windmills differ in style from one country to the next.
“Windmills in Architecture” Windmills have influenced the architecture of both homes and businesses alike.
“History of Illinois Wind Power” An in-depth analysis as to why windmills were built on the prairie
“Wind Technology” A timeline of how the windmill evolved
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The five surviving custom windmills in Illinois. Clockwise from top: De Immigrant, Fulton; Fabyan Windmill, Geneva; Fischer Windmill, Elmhurst; Peotone Windmill, Peotone; and Prairie Mills Windmill, Golden. Click on a photograph to learn more about each windmill. Collage by Tom Haskell |
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Mill Calendar 2009 Check out these mill-related events in your area:
February 14 Prairie Mills Windmill Golden, IL 7:30 P.M.
February 21 Tom Haskell’s Illinois Windmills Schiller Park Historical Society Schiller Park, IL 2:00 P.M.
March-April Prairie Mills Windmill Golden, IL
May 1-2 De Immigrant Windmill Fulton, IL
May 10 Prairie Mills Windmill Golden, IL 11:00 A.M. and 12:30 P.M.
July 18-19 Prairie Mills Windmill Golden, IL
August 8-9 Tom Haskell’s Illinois Windmills Illinois Renewable Energy Fair at Ogle County Fairgrounds
August 13 Tom Haskell’s Illinois Windmills De Immigrant Windmill Fulton, IL
October 25 Prairie Mills Windmill Golden, IL
December 5 Prairie Mills Windmill Golden, IL
TBA Tom Haskell’s Illinois Windmills Franklin Park Women’s Club |
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