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April 1, 1922: The Illinois State Police begins serving the state with the appointment of its first director, John J. Stack, and the first eight men as highway patrol officers

March 31, 1908: Kenneth “Red” Norvo, an early jazz vibraphonist, is born in Beardstown

March 30, 1981: Centralia native James Brady, White House press secretary under President Ronald Reagan, is gravely wounded during an assassination attempt outside a Washington, D.C., hotel

March 29, 1859: Oscar Mayer, who built a meat-packing empire from a small Chicago butcher shop, is born in Germany

March 28, 1845: Gustav Goelitz, a German-American businessman whose Belleville confectionary became Jelly Belly Candy Co., is born

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