Next Wisconsin gov has Boone family ties - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star

Although Walker never lived in Illinois, his family’s roots are in Boone County. In many campaign speeches, he used that brown-bag theme, which he credited to his grandmother, Eleanor Fitch, who lived for years in Boone County.
The story was relayed in an e-mail from Pat Fitch Walker, Scott’s mother, who was a 1956 graduate of Belvidere High School

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