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Several United States post offices are individually notable and have operated under the authority of the United States Post Office Department (1792–1971) or the United States Postal Service (since 1971).
United States Post Office (Belvidere, Illinois) United States Post Office (Champaign, Illinois) United States Post Office (Joliet, Illinois) United States Post Office (Mattoon, Illinois) United States Post Office (Sycamore, Illinois) United States Post Office and Court House (Danville, Illinois) United States Post Office and Courthouse (Peoria ...
Verona is a village in Grundy County, Illinois. The population was 208 at the 2020 census. [4] The community was established circa 1876 by George D. Smith as a station on the Chicago, Pekin and Southwestern Railroad. Smith named the town for his birthplace Verona, New York. [5]
The building served as the city's main post office and still serves as the courthouse of the Southern District of Illinois; it is named for U.S. Representative Charles Melvin Price. Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor designed the Beaux-Arts building in 1907; construction began the following year and was completed in 1909.
A a post office was first established in Chicago on March 8, 1831, with Johnathan N. Baily, a fur trader, being appointed Chicago's first postmaster. [1] [2] Chicago was long the hub of the Railway Mail Service of the United States.
The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a post office and federal courthouse located at 200 North Eighth Street in Quincy, Illinois. The building was designed in 1885 and completed in 1887. Architect Mifflin E. Bell, Supervising Architect at the time, designed the French Renaissance Revival style building.
The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, located at 100 Northeast Monroe Street in Peoria, Illinois, is a U.S. district courthouse for the Central District of Illinois.The building was constructed in 1937-38; [1] [2] it has a PWA Moderne design, a variant of Moderne architecture commonly used in Public Works Administration projects.
Until 1988, the building housed the post office on its first floor and federal court operations on its upper two floors. After a new courthouse opened in Urbana, bankruptcy cases continued to be heard in Danville until 2013, when the building was mostly vacated. In June 2017, the federal government transferred ownership to Vermilion County. [3]