Good morning, Whitewater
The Park and Recreation Board meets tonight at 5:30 p.m. Otherwise, the City’s just just waiting until election day — what else could private citizens have to do? I’ll post on city races tomorrow morning, with thoughts on Kienbaum and Nosek race, in particular.
In Wisconsin history on this date, from 1831, the Sauk Indians Leave Illinois & Wisconsin:
On this date, in the spring of 1831, the Sauk Indians led by Chief Keokuk left their ancestral home near the mouth of the Rock River and moved across the Mississippi River to Iowa to fulfill the terms of a treaty signed in 1804. Many of the tribe, however, believed the treaty to be invalid and the following spring, when the U.S. government failed to provide them with promised supplies, this dissatisfied faction led by Black Hawk returned to their homeland on the Rock River, precipitating the Black Hawk War. [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers, edited by Sarah Davis McBride]