Diamond Lake, Illinois

• ... that future American presidential candidate George McGovern was a student pastor at a church in Diamond Lake, Illinois?
  • Source: https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/george-mcgovern-recalled-as-a-pastor/article_b9eb3000-e9c6-5d4f-98e5-fec1d1156655.html
    "As a student pastor at Diamond Lake Community Methodist Church for parts of 1946 and 1947, McGovern early on demonstrated a knack for engaging and connecting with others"
    "But it was World War II that interrupted his studies at Dakota Wesleyan University and led him to Diamond Lake."
    https://newspapers.com/article/the-camden-news-mcgovern/150433994/ (syndicated Associated Press)
    "The breakfast was held in a church whose pastor, John S. Jury, had been a student minister at a Methodist church in Diamond Lake, Ill., a year or so before McGovern became a student pastor there while studying for the ministry as a young man"
  • ALT1 ... that Jack Benny, Glenn Miller, and Lawrence Welk all performed at a dance pavilion in Diamond Lake, Illinois?
    • Source: Mundelein, Arcadia Publishing, pp. 94: "The Ray Brothers hosted numerous stars of the day as guests, including Jack Benny playing at the pavilion, as did Glenn Miller and Lawrence Welk."
      (The full quote on page 94 of the book clarifies that the dance pavilion is in Diamond Lake)
  • ALT2: ... that a bar in Diamond Lake, Illinois, was described by the Daily Herald as "the dart the headquarters for the Windy City and Northern Illinois dart leagues" in 2008?
    • Source: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/26987615/ "They introduced darts, real ones, to the Irish Mill, which later became the dart headquarters for the Windy City and Northern Illinois dart leagues."
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  • Comment: This is my first one. A bit nervous and I'm hoping I'm doing everything correctly. Some of the sources come from my work in Mundelein, Illinois (especially the education one), but not including it still makes the prose large enough :)

SeymourHolcomb ( talk) 19:19, 28 June 2024 (UTC).