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Centralia's business district developed around the Illinois Central Railroad tracks, as the town was established by and named for the railroad. The earliest buildings in the district date from the 1850s, as the city was platted in 1853.
City or town Description 1: Adams Memorial Library: Adams Memorial Library: June 4, 1981 : 102 East Wesley St. Wheaton: The library was designed by Charles Sumner Frost in 1891. It was the only library in the area until 1965.
The historic district reflects the history of Morris, Illinois as a canal town on the Illinois & Michigan Canal. Named after canal commissioner Isaac N. Morris, the town became the Grundy County seat in 1841 and was originally platted a year later. The earliest of the buildings were built in the 1850s, shortly after the canal's construction.
As of October 2023, nearly 500,000 businesses in Illinois were owned by women. ... Take this scenario: A family of four moves to a quaint small town in Central Illinois. The father is a new ...
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This 2023 Illinois Maker class, inducted into the "Illinois Made" program last week, is the largest one in the eight-year history of the program — so of course East Central Illinois was represented.
Granite City, Illinois, built by St. Louis Stamping Company, a steel company known for its "Granite ware" in which cooking utensils were made to look like granite Hegewisch, Chicago , founded by Adolph Hegewisch (President of the United States Rolling Stock Company) to emulate the company town of Pullman.
This is a list of Illinois companies which includes notable companies that are headquartered in Illinois, or were previously headquartered in Illinois. In general, this list does not include companies headquartered in one of the municipalities of the Chicago metropolitan area .