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Arcola is a city in Douglas County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,927 at the 2020 census. The population was 2,927 at the 2020 census. The city was founded in 1855, when the Illinois Central Railroad was built through the county.
Arcola Township is one of nine townships in Douglas County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,257 and it contained 1,316 housing units. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,257 and it contained 1,316 housing units.
The Arcola Carnegie Public Library is a Carnegie library located at 407 E. Main St. in Arcola, Illinois. The library was built in 1905 through a $10,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation . Architect Paul O. Moratz designed the library in the Classical Revival style.
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The G.A.R. Memorial Museum is open every Saturday afternoon, Noon to 4 p.m. The octagonally-shaped building was built with locally quarried limestone. The standing Gothic Revival structure is one and a half stories and features a small lot outside of the building with an 1851 cannon, a bench, and a flagpole.
Arcola Community Unit School District 306 is a unified school district based in a southern Douglas County settlement named Arcola, Illinois. The district is composed of an elementary school and a consolidated junior senior high school. [1] The junior senior high school, although consolidated, is still regarded as two different schools. [2]
The hall was built for a cost of in $22,000 in 1909, which included the cost of the land. [5] It served as a meeting place for veterans of the Civil War. [5] Greenhut personally donated $15,000, approximately two-thirds of the building's cost, allowing the hall to open without debt.
By the 1960s the library had outgrown the space available, and voters approved a referendum to construct a new library. The new facility of what is now the Cook Memorial Public Library District opened directly behind the Cook House in 1968. [3] The building was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1]