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Historic Highlights: Illinois residents were glued to TV for moon landing
On the evening of July 20, 1969, an estimated 650 million people worldwide watched televised coverage of the first moon landing. Plenty of people in Illinois joined in. On that historic Sunday night, the streets of many communities were empty as residents …