Matt's Old Mokena

Saturday, October 29, 2022

Man of the Cloth: The Story of Rev. James R. Woodcock and the Mokena Methodist Congregation

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    As time marches onward, we are swept up in a never-ending news cycle, and are bombarded with momentous events, so many that the average ...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

School Days: The Story of Elizabeth Cappel

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    “School days, school days/Dear old Golden Rule days/’Reading and ‘riting and ‘rithmetic/Taught to the tune of the hick’ry stick.” Mokena...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Decorated in Flames: The Martin Hall Fire of 1912

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      A community draws strength in the gathering of its citizens. They come together in settings where ideas are shared, grand plans hatche...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Ach So Giftig: The Story of the 1889 Dall Murders

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    Mokena has the proud reputation of being a peaceable place, a name built on the relationships built by longstanding neighbors and friend...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

Halls of Decision: Mokena's First Village Hall

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     In the heart of Mokena there stands a small, nondescript building. Simple in its construction, it’s not likely to ever win any architec...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

The Foe of Fire: Mokena's First Water Tower

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    As Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, our forefathers used it to heat their homes and power the locomotives tha...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

One Man for the Union: The Life of Pvt. Carl Hacker

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    In the annals of our country’s history, the most high-profile moments happened in locales far from Mokena. The watershed moment in Ameri...
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Matt Galik
Hello! I'm the author of Images of America: Mokena, as well as The 1926 Orland Park Murder Mystery, and am a commissioner on the Will County Historic Preservation Commission. Contact me at matthewgalik1852@gmail.com!
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