Name: What Happened to Kewanee, Illinois?
Uploaded: 2025-09-18T17:00:00+00:00
Duration: 15 min 31 s
Description: Kewanee, Illinois — once the “Hog Capital of the World” and home to the massive Kewanee Boiler Company. Today? Boarded-up storefronts, a struggling economy, and a town waiting decades for a comeback t

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Kewanee, Illinois — once the “Hog Capital of the World” and home to the massive Kewanee Boiler Company. Today? Boarded-up storefronts, a struggling economy, and a town waiting decades for a comeback that hasn’t arrived. Here’s what really happened to Kewanee.

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