Editing Everett Dirksen (section)

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* In 1972, one of the Senate's buildings was renamed the [[Dirksen Senate Office Building]] in his honor.
* The [[Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse|federal courthouse/building]] of the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois]] and [[United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit]] in Chicago is also named after him.
* A parkway in [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]], Illinois (bypass for the historic [[U.S. Route 66|Route 66]] through the capital's center) is named in his honor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ilsos.gov/facilityfinder/facilityfinder?command=getFacilityDetails&facilityId=137|title=Springfield Dirksen Parkway Secretary of State Facility|website=www.ilsos.gov}}</ref>
* Dirksen Drive, a road in [[DeBary, Florida]], is named after him. He was a winter resident in DeBary in his later years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2019/zaing1w8wm2ztv99-6451943911194624.3-2xa.gif|title=Google|via=www.google.com}}</ref>
* Dirksen's statue, originally located adjacent to the [[Illinois State Capitol]] and is now in Mineral Springs Park in his hometown of Pekin, Illinois, includes two objects [[icon]]ically identified with the senator: an [[oil can]] and a bunch of marigolds.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}
* Everett Dirksen was inducted as a laureate of [[The Lincoln Academy of Illinois]] and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the state's highest honor) by the governor of Illinois in 1966 in the area of government.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thelincolnacademyofillinois.org/4632-2/#toggle-id-50|title=Laureates by Year – The Lincoln Academy of Illinois|website=The Lincoln Academy of Illinois|language=en-US|access-date=March 7, 2016|archive-date=September 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923204516/http://thelincolnacademyofillinois.org/4632-2/#toggle-id-50|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The Everett McKinley Dirksen Elementary School on 8601 West Foster Avenue in Chicago is a magnet school named in his memory along with other public schools in other Illinois townships.
* Dirksen was mentioned in [[Jeff Greenfield]]'s [[alternate history]] book ''If Kennedy Lived'' in which in 1964, President [[John F. Kennedy]], having survived his [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassination in Dallas]] the previous year, gathered Senate minority leader Dirksen and others in discussion of selling grain to the [[Soviet Union]].
* The [[United States Postal Service]] issued a commemorative stamp in 1981 honoring Dirksen.<ref>[http://usstampgallery.com/view.php?id=eb7d962ee05b55754e0d3fad066b71b5cfc6e4ab&Everett_M_Dirksen Everett M. Dirksen] U.S. Stamp Gallery.</ref>
* The Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress has been awarded annually since 1980 by the [[National Press Foundation]] (NPF) <ref>{{cite web | url=https://nationalpress.org/awards/everett-mckinley-dirksen-awards-for-distinguished-reporting-of-congress/ | title=Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress | publisher=[[National Press Foundation]] (NPF) | access-date=October 9, 2019}}</ref>