Summary

Riverdale, Illinois, is the place named in the October 1976 Beaver Beacon report of Patricia Lockton and Patrick Crawford’s wedding.

Evidence and limits

This is a source-qualified place-name record, not a geographic boundary or current place authority record.

Sources

OpenStreetMap relation 123416, Riverdale, Illinois, retrieved 2026-08-06 (ODbL 1.0).
Current administrative representative point for the incorporated Riverdale municipality named in the 1976 wedding notice; it is not the Queen of Apostles Church venue or a historical event boundary.
Beaver Beacon, October 1976, “Weddings: Crawford–Lockton.”
Names Riverdale, Illinois, as the location of the reported Queen of Apostles Church wedding. This source-qualified place record does not supply municipal boundaries or current geographic metadata. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, October 1976, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue confirms the place name in the wedding report.
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Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Riverdale, Illinois”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/riverdale-illinois/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap relation 123416, Riverdale, Illinois, retrieved 2026-08-06 (ODbL 1.0). (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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