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Beach Park is the home to the South Beach section of Illinois Beach State Park, which is otherwise located in Winthrop Harbor. The beach was originally part of Camp Logan, a rifle range developed by the Illinois National Guard in 1892. In World War I and World War II it served as a rifle range for the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. The ...
Charleston Township is one of twelve townships in Coles County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 19,313 and it contained 9,194 housing units. [ 1 ] Eastern Illinois University is located in this township.
The Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site is an 86-acre (0.3 km 2) history park located eight miles (13 km) south of Charleston, Illinois, U.S., near the town of Lerna. The centerpiece is a replica of the log cabin built and occupied by Thomas Lincoln, father of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
Adeline Geo-Karis Illinois Beach State Park, part of the Illinois state park system, is located along Lake Michigan in northern Lake County in northeast Illinois. Together with lands to the north, including Chiwaukee Prairie , it forms the Chiwaukee Prairie Illinois Beach Lake Plain , an internationally recognized wet-land of importance under ...
Lake Charleston is a reservoir in Coles County, Illinois. [1] Served by Illinois Route 130, it is 2 miles (3 km) southeast of the Illinois city of Charleston. [2] Much of the lake is surrounded by city parkland, and a lakeside circular trail is 3.6 miles (6.0 km) in length. Power boats are allowed, but the lake enforces a no-wake rule.
Due to increasing population and limited resources, three neighboring districts agreed to join together to create what we now know as Beach Park Community Consolidated School District #3. The three individual, one building, school districts included Howe #3, Beach Park #5 and Bonnie Brook #115. Our BPD3 Birthday is May, 25th 1946.
The Five Mile House is a historic brick house five miles [CONVERT] southeast of Charleston, IL, at the intersection of IL 130 and Westfield Rd. Built in the 1840s, the house is one of the oldest remaining structures in Coles County. [1] The house is now operated as a museum and is owned by the Five Mile House Foundation.
The Charleston–Mattoon, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of Coles County in central Illinois, anchored by the cities of Charleston and Mattoon. As of the 2000 census, the area had a population of 64,449 (though a July 1, 2009 estimate placed the population at 62,781). [1]