
Bureau County
County in IllinoisWikipedia
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Search complete. 4 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Bureau County".
Oct 17, 2026
A piece of Dixon history: The Bootlegger King of Rock Falls
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5:22speaker_0NARRATOR
The arrest was the first time that Sparoni had ever been arrested at a still.
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5:26speaker_0NARRATOR
He was also suspected of operating a still at 1606 Locust Street in Sterling, at a farm south of Rock Falls, one near Tampico, and one in Bureau County.
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5:36speaker_0NARRATOR
Multi-state distribution.
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5:37speaker_0NARRATOR
Jack's distillery reportedly produced one hundred and ninety proof alcohol intended for distribution to Iowa, other Western states, and possibly Tennessee and Kentucky.
RFD Profit Watch October 13, 2026
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21:31Chip DellingerGUEST
Thank you.
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21:32DeLoss JahnkeHOST
Chip Dellinger, a Bureau County native now based in Peoria.
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21:36DeLoss JahnkeHOST
Blue Reef Agri Marketing, and the website is bluereefag.com.
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21:43DeLoss JahnkeHOST
This is RFD Profit Watch.
Digging Deeper From Supporters Perspectives | Part 2
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44:37Andy HaleHOST
Roy Tyson no doubt knew Smokey, uh, knew Smokey Rona, knew all the family history, gave you all those details of how he knew Bobby Rona growing up and the whole family.
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44:48Andy HaleHOST
And his core story was Smokey told him that he was contacted by these Chicago mafia guys, and he helped plan these murders, and that he had bloody clothes in the trunk of his car that he didn't know what to do with, that he wound up burning them in the Bureau County burn pit.
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45:05Andy HaleHOST
Let's pause there.
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45:06Andy HaleHOST
I want, I want readers, listeners to really understand this.
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45:46Andy HaleHOST
That's not something you would make up.
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45:48Andy HaleHOST
He's just recounting what he was told.
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45:50Andy HaleHOST
And then Smokey says he winds up taking them to the Bureau County burn pit and burning them.
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45:55Andy HaleHOST
It is spot on with what Lois Zelentic heard.