Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 2463
Land area (2000): 2.618450 sq. miles (6.781755 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.618450 sq. miles (6.781755 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79228
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.776665 N, 87.735515 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60970
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Watseka
Wikipedia
Watseka or Watchekee (c. 1810–1878) was a Potawatomi Native American woman, born in Illinois, and named for the heroine of a Potawatomi legend. Her uncle was Tamin, the chief of the Kankakee Potawatomi Indians.
In 1824, at age ten, she became engaged to Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, whom she married at age fourteen or fifteen. Hubbard and Watseka had two children, both of whom died in infancy. They mutually dissolved the union in 1826. Watseka married Noel Le Vasseur at age eighteen, and was described as "beautiful, intelligent and petite." She had three children with Le Vasseur, who learned to speak the Potawatomi language. In 1836, she left for Council Bluffs, Iowa, where her tribe had been removed in 1832 following the Treaty of Camp Tippecanoe. She died in Council Bluffs in 1878.
a city in East Central Illinois may have been named in her honor.
Usage examples of "watseka".
He was forty-six, and one of the best attorneys in Watseka, and surely the most loved.
It was the biggest thing that had happened in Watseka since the minister's son had taken LSD and committed suicide ten years before.
No one in Watseka would have believed it, no matter what Molly York thought, or the hospital told her.
David had petitioned on the basis that there was no way she could get a fair trial in Watseka, people were just too prejudiced in favor of her father.
The people of Watseka loved John Adams, and they didn't want to believe her.
With a great deal of prodding from David, Wills had agreed to let her have fifty thousand dollars of her father's money, in exchange for which she would agree never to return to Watseka, or interfere with him in any way, or anything he had inherited from her father.
She told them she was from Watseka, had graduated from junior college there, and had taken secretarial courses in shorthand and typing.
But he had her by the throat, just the way everyone had for years, her parents, Frank Wills, the police in Watseka, the guards at Dwight, even bitches like Brenda and her friends, until Luna and Sally had rescued her.