Talk:Thomas Jefferson Vance Owen

A fact from Thomas Jefferson Vance Owen appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 February 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Thomas Jefferson Vance Owen, the first school commissioner of Cook County, Illinois, and Chicago's first town president, was responsible for indirectly naming Grand Avenue?

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