Brief
History from wikipedia:
Rooks
County was named for John Calvin Rooks, a
private in the Union army during the Civil
War, and contains the cities
of Stockton, Woodston, Damar, Palco,
Zurich and Plainville. D. O. Adams; Lewis
N. Stults; Lyman Randall; and George
Beebe organized it on November 26,
1872. The attempts by Rooks Center and
Stockton to locate the county seat in
their
communities have invoked several
legendary stories, and some true. One such
relates that in the election of 1872 it
was said
the county commissioners allowed no
one to vote more than three times and
therefore felt confident no illegal votes
were cast.
Stockton won the election.
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