Flick Fact: That chain

Question: Millions, perhaps billions, of miles of chain-link fence exist across America. Can you name where the very first commercially manufactured chain-link fence appeared in the U.S.?

Answer: It was in Goodfield, the town along Interstate 74 between Bloomington and Peoria. That’s where in 1897, a company founded by Sam, Tim and John Hohulin, sons of Gottlieb Hohulin, a German immigrant and weaver of fine jacquard fabrics, filled their first fence order for 396 feet of 48-inch-high fence with one gate, to encircle a home near Goodfield. With an invoice for $26.90, it made American history for the Hohulin Brothers Fence Co.

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Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

Friday night during the 2023 Make Music Normal festival.

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