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The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Danville, Illinois, and its surrounding metropolitan area, including Vermilion County, Illinois. Subcategories
This list of cemeteries in Vermilion County, Illinois includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Born in Danville Gene Hackman: Jan 30, 1930: Academy Award–winning actor Went to junior high and early high school in Danville Brett Haley: Aug 17, 1983 Film director Born in Danville Ned Luke: Oct 4, 1958: Film, TV, and video game actor Born in Danville [2] Helen Morgan: Aug 2, 1900: Oct 9, 1941: Stage and screen star, subject of The Helen ...
Last permanent residence was in Belleville, Illinois: Carrie Thomas Alexander-Bahrenberg: 1861 1929 University of Illinois trustee until 1912 Ninian Edwards: Mar 17, 1775 Jul 20, 1833 3rd Governor of Illinois: Hometown was Belleville John Reynolds: Feb 26, 1788 May 18, 1865 4th Governor of Illinois: Hometown was Belleville William Henry Bissell ...
Danville is in western Montgomery County, on the north side of Interstate 70/U.S. Route 40, with access from Exit 170, Missouri Route 161. I-70 leads west 45 miles (72 km) to Columbia and east 80 miles (130 km) to St. Louis, while Route 161 leads north 5 miles (8 km) to Montgomery City. There is a combined gas station-food store-lunch counter ...
The first Danville Public Library was formed out of various existing collections in 1883 and was replaced by a Carnegie library in 1904. [29] In 1910, a group of 9 elephants escaped from a Ringling circus and ran through Danville before being recaptured. [30] [31] An extension University of Illinois was created in Danville in 1946.
U.S. Representative and Danville resident Joseph Gurney Cannon used his political influence to establish the Danville Branch, which brought money and jobs to the city. The campus served as both a medical facility and a planned community for the area's veterans, and it included housing, veteran-run shops, community halls, a school and library ...
Turner was elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849). He served as member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1854; he was speaker. While speaker, Turner was a member of the Anti-Nebraska movement. [1] Turner was elected first mayor of Freeport, Illinois, in 1855.