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The City of Danville's Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) approves new historic districts and landmarks. It was created in 1990 and is recognized as a Certified Local Government by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. [1]
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.
Just west of Danville it crosses to the north side of Interstate 74 as that highway veers to the southeast. In downtown Danville, it meets Illinois Route 1 and U.S. Route 136, and follows Route 1 to the south and continues through the towns of Belgium, Westville, Georgetown and Ridge Farm before entering Edgar County further to the south. [31]
Danville Township is a township in Vermilion County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 32,113 and it contained 13,913 housing units. [ 2 ] Danville Area Community College and the Illinois Department Of Corrections Danville Correctional Facility are in this township.
The Vermilion County Administration Building, formerly known as the United States Post Office and Court House, is a historic federal building located at 201 North Vermilion Street in Danville, Illinois. The building was built in 1911 to serve as Danville's post office and a district courthouse for the Eastern District of Illinois.
The Danville Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District is the historic campus of a branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Danville, Illinois. The branch, which opened in 1898, was one of eleven branches of the National Home, which formed in 1867 to treat Union soldiers disabled during the ...
The Commercial-News is a daily newspaper that serves Danville, Illinois and surrounding communities. It is owned by CNHI, who acquired it from Gannett in 1998. [2] It maintains a presence as a three-day print, and also an online publication. It was founded, as the Danville Commercial, in 1866. [3]
The Lakeview Hospital was organized in Danville in 1892, and the first patient was admitted in 1894. The same year, the Danville Training School for Nurses opened and was the only such training school in the area for 26 years. [1] The training initially lasted for two years; in 1901 this was increased to three years.