Would that be... a hick town?
This is a bit off-topic so please move on if you're not interested...to the rest of you, thanks for indulging me. I get a kick out of this.
In response to your question. let me put it this way. It's a town of a population of 16,000 in a state of 13,000,000 people whose own web site won't even load about 50% of the time!
http://www.discoverdixon.org/
The city is named after its founder John Dixon, who operated a rope
ferry (yes I'm being childish
) service across Cock, opps, I meant Rock River. Oh yeah and there's also this lovely story about this wonderful city:
Running by Interstate 88 is a road named Bloody Gulch Road. The road is named after a murder and body disposal. In the 1800s two men were playing in a pick-up game of baseball, one a farm hand and the other a traveling salesman. After the game the farm hand told the salesman of a place he could see his Bibles and proceeded to take him to the farm where he worked. As the two men passed a gulch the farmhand struck and killed the salesman with a bat used at the game. He then buried the body by an underpass. The body was later discovered when cattle refused to use the underpass en route to a milking barn. An overnight rain had washed away some of the dirt exposing a limb. When the sheriff arrived to question the farm hand, since he was seen leaving the game with the deceased, he pretended to get a drink while throwing a ring taken from the salesman in the bushes. The evidence was found and the farm hand was eventually put in jail for life, while the road over the underpass began to be called Bloody Gulch Road.
One more thing they're famous for:
In April 2012, Dixon Municipal Comptroller Rita Crundwell was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for embezzlement. She used the embezzled funds to pay for her lavish lifestyle and what became one of the nation's most well-known quarter horse-breeding programs, among other things. Crundwell's crime,
thought to be the most substantial municipal theft in U.S. history, impacted Dixon's finances severely. Federal prosecutors placed the
estimate of the embezzlement at $53 million since 1990. In February 2013, Crundwell was sentenced to 235 months (somewhat more than 19 1/2 years) in prison.
I think based on the history of the town itself, they should be forced to "sell the name" to C.M.H. enterprises for one single dollar (not even pound just for good measure)!
