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Dundee, Illinois is a community in Kane County, Illinois, situated along the Fox River. The town — which in later years would formally distinguish its two sides as East Dundee and West Dundee — was home to a number of German-speaking immigrant families during the Gilded Age, among them the Müller family, who became tragically known to the wider region following a catastrophic railroad disaster in October 1887.
!Scanned newspaper page from Image 7 of The daily union (Washington [D.C.]), February 2, 1850, 1850-02-02 (Library of Congress, Chronicling America) Scanned newspaper page from Image 7 of The daily union (Washington [D.C.]), February 2, 1850, 1850-02-02 (Library of Congress, Chronicling America) | Source: Library of Congress, Chronicling America
According to History of Kane County, Ill. (Joslyn,