In October 2007, the Catfish Bend Casino in Burlington, Iowa, notified its staff that the casino was closing and they were going to be laid off.

Early purchases of the company included about of land from Edward Burling and his partners ; land was sold at a profit to Thomas Chittenden among others, and the settlements on the company's land have grown to become the city of Burlington.

Allen and his family moved to Burlington in 1787, which was no longer a small frontier settlement but a small town, and much more to Allen's liking than the larger community that Bennington had become.

He was buried four days later in the Green Mount Cemetery in Burlington.

Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont, to a family of modest means.

Born in Burlington, Iowa, on May 15, 1874, Mason was the eldest son of Rear Admiral George Collier Remey and Mary Josephine Mason Remey, the daughter of Charles Mason, the first Chief Justice of Iowa.

The concept was quickly seen as successful, and was expanded to other railroads operating out of Chicago, including the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Chicago and Rock Island, Pennsylvania and the Erie.

Noyce was born on December 12, 1927, in Burlington, Iowa.

The galleria is covered by an arching glass and cast iron roof, a popular design for 19th-century arcades, such as the Burlington Arcade in London, which was the prototype for larger glazed shopping arcades, beginning with the Saint-Hubert Gallery in Brussels and the Passazh in St Petersburg.

The case was brought by three same-sex couples who applied for and were denied marriage licenses in the towns of Milton, Shelburne and South Burlington.

The D & RGW's sense of its unique geographical challenge found expression in what is arguably the world's most famous passenger train, the California Zephyr, which was jointly operated with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad ( CB & Q ) from Chicago to Denver and the Western Pacific Railroad from Salt Lake City to Oakland, California ( with ferry and bus connections to San Francisco ).

After Fortune magazine exposed the manufactured mismanagement in 1974, Louis W. Menk, chairman of the Burlington Northern Railroad, remarked that the story was undermining the scheme to dismantle Amtrak.

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork PC ( 25 April 1694 – 15 December 1753 ), born in Yorkshire, England, was the son of Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington and 3rd Earl of Cork.

Burlington was called ' the Apollo of the Arts ' and never took more than a passing interest in politics despite his position as a Privy Councillor and a member of the House of Lords.

Lord Burlington, also known as " the architect Earl ", was instrumental in the revival of Palladian architecture.

In the meantime, in 1723 he adapted the palazzo facade in the illustration for the London house of General Wade in Old Burlington Street, which was engraved for Vitruvius Britannicus iii ( 1725 ).

Burlington's first project, appropriately, was his own London residence, Burlington House, where he dismissed his baroque architect James Gibbs when he returned from the continent in 1719 and employed the Scottish architect Colen Campbell, with the history-painter-turned-designer William Kent for the interiors.

The courtyard front of Burlington House, prominently sited in Piccadilly, was the first major executed statement of neo-Palladianism.

In the 1720s Burlington and Campbell parted, and Burlington was assisted in his projects by the young Henry Flitcroft, " Burlington Harry "— who developed into a major architect of the second neopalladian generation — and Daniel Garrett — a straightforward palladian architect of the second rank — and some draughtsmen.

For the rest of his life Burlington was " the Apollo of the arts " as Horace Walpole phrased it — and Kent his ' proper priest.

In 1739, Burlington was involved in the founding of a new charitable organisation called the Foundling Hospital.

The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway built a 66-mile branch to What Cheer via Thornburg in 1879 The town was founded by the railroad and named in memory of Major Thomas T. Thornburgh, who died in the Meeker Massacre.

Hastings was founded in 1872 at the intersection of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad and the St. Joseph and Denver City Railroad.

Burlington was founded on part of that land by English settlers ( primarily Quakers ) in 1677, and served as the capital of the province until 1702, when West Jersey and East Jersey were combined into a singe Crown Colony.

Burlington Coat Factory was founded in 1924 as a wholesaler of ladies ' coats and outerwear.

Cinnaminson is home to the Burlington County Footlighters, a production company founded in 1938 who perform regularly at a playhouse within the township.

Burlington, and its former settlements were founded by and James Colton ( the men who also settled Larimore, North Dakota ) in Dakota Territory in the late 1870s.

When Yardley was founded there were already small settlements at nearby Burlington, Bristol, and Falls Ferry.

From 1844 to 1850, the town of Voree, just to the west of Burlington, was the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( Strangite ), one of many sects founded during the succession crisis following the death of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Jr ..

Burlington's first private school, the Burlington Academy, was founded in 1844 as a result of dissatisfaction with the other schools operating at the time.

On October 14, 1863, the Burlington Standard, another Republican newspaper, was founded.

* James Strang, founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( Strangite ) from Voree, on the outskirts of Burlington.

In that same era was organized the short-lived rival to the Philharmonic, the American Academy of Music, founded by Charles Jerome Hopkins ( born 1836 in Burlington, Vermont ), William Fry, George Bristow, and Charles Steele in 1856.

* 1852: The Ladies Society for Promoting Education in the West founded colleges in Burlington, Iowa ; Quincy, Illinois ; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin

* Helixe in Burlington, Massachusetts, founded in July 2000, closed November 2008.

The B & MR continued building west into Nebraska as a separate company, the Burlington & Missouri River Rail Road in Nebraska, founded in 1869.

Burlington College was founded in 1972 by Dr. J.

The company was founded February 5, 1936, by Burlington Transportation Company, Santa Fe Trails Transportation Company, Missouri-Pacific Stages, Safeway Lines, Inc., and Frank Martz Coach Company.

ObjectStore was originally created in 1988 by Object Design, Incorporated, which was based in Burlington, Massachusetts and founded by several former Symbolics employees.

The company was founded in 1924 as " Burlington Coat Factory ", a manufacturer of ladies ' coats and outerwear.

Rounder Records, originally of Cambridge, Massachusetts, but now based in Burlington, Massachusetts, is a record label founded in 1970 by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin and Marian Leighton-Levy, while all three were still university students.

Franklin Electronic Publishers, Incorporated ( formerly Franklin Computer Corporation ) is an American consumer electronics manufacturer based in Burlington, New Jersey, founded in 1981.

The company was founded in 1981 by John Sortino, who sold handcrafted teddy bears in an open-air market in Burlington, Vermont.

The Burlington Magazine was founded as a journal of ancient art but already in its first decade, especially under the editorship of Fry articles on modern art became prominent.

The Howard National Bank & Trust Company of Burlington, Vermont, was founded in 1870.