Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 5505
Land area (2000): 4.620067 sq. miles (11.965918 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.620067 sq. miles (11.965918 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07471
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.165040 N, 87.878486 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60914
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bourbonnais
Wikipedia
Bourbonnais was a historic province in the centre of France that corresponded to the modern département of Allier, along with part of the département of Cher. Its capital was Moulins.
Usage examples of "bourbonnais".
He once more informed himself of the different roads leading into the Bourbonnais province, where he was going to visit a relative.
The latter, now Count de Saint-Geran, succeeded his father in the government of the Bourbonnais, and was named Chevalier of the King's Orders.
At the same time they appealed against the judgment of the lieutenant-general of the Bourbonnais, giving the tutelage of the young count to the countess his mother, and his guardianship to sieur de Bompre.
Such is the reasoning of the peasantry, and, in Nivernais, Bourbonnais, Berri, and Touraine, electoral gatherings are the firebrands of the insurrections.
In Nivernais and Bourbonnais, the peasants trace a boundary line over which no sack of grain of that region must pass.