Western Springs, Illinois. Western Springs is a village located in Cook County, Illinois, United States and is a suburb of Chicago. As of the 2010 census, the village had a total population of 12,975. It is twinned with Rugeley, United Kingdom.
'Botswana' means a place for Batswana. The main meaning of Botswana refers to all citizens of the country without exclusion-referred to as Batswana. Batswana are democratic people who look beyond ethnic, cultural and identity differences for the stability of their country.
There are a number of confusing changes of place name to be aware of in Botswana history. In much of Southern Africa, place names have changed when settler-given names are replaced by African ones; as for example when Salisbury, the capital of Southern Rhodesia, became Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.he original settlement was the capital of the Barolong, known as Mafikeng (Setswana, = place of stones) - note the order of i and e. In 1885 Warren established a settler town nearby, which was known as Mafeking.