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Crescent City is located in central Iroquois County at (40.770448, -87.857823 U.S. Route 24 passes through the center of the village, leading east 6 miles (10 km) to Watseka , the county seat , and west 7 miles (11 km) to Gilman near Interstate 57 .
Crescent Township is one of twenty-six townships in Iroquois County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 567 and it contained 259 housing units. [ 1 ] Crescent Township was originally named Logan Township when it formed from Belmont Township on September 17, 1868.
Glastex Company president and founder, William J. Horvath, expanded the company to a 47,000-square-foot (4,400 m 2) facility in Monmouth, Illinois after an early-1958 zoning dispute regarding manufacturing use of the 7-acre (28,000 m 2) property and the 9,000-square-foot (840 m 2) building located there. In 1958, Glastex employed twenty-two ...
The county is bisected by the east–west U.S. Route 24, which passes through Gilman, Crescent City, the county seat of Watseka, and Sheldon. Interstate 57; U.S. Highway 45; U.S. Highway 52; Illinois Route 1; Illinois Route 49; Illinois Route 54; Illinois Route 116; Several railroad lines pass through the county.
On August 10, 1887, a TP&W excursion passenger train was involved in the Great Chatsworth train wreck near Chatsworth, Illinois. The train was bound for Niagara Falls, before it derailed at a weakened bridge, and 80 people were killed. [6] On June 21, 1970, an eastbound TP&W freight train No. 20 derailed mid-train in Crescent City, Illinois.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 January 2025. "Cities in Illinois" redirects here. For unincorporated communities, see List of unincorporated communities in Illinois. For CDPs, see List of census-designated places in Illinois. Map of the United States with Illinois highlighted Illinois is a state located in the Midwestern United ...
Watseka is a city in and the county seat of Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. [2] It is located approximately 15 miles (24 km) west of the Illinois-Indiana state line on U.S. Route 24 . The population of Watseka was 4,679 as of the 2020 Census.
The city, situated on a prominent bend along the Mississippi River, quickly grew to 12,000 inhabitants and was for a time rivaling for the title of largest city in Illinois. By the early 1840s, the Latter Day Saints built a large stone temple in Nauvoo , one of the largest buildings in Illinois at the time, which was completed in 1846.