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1833 – Champaign County is founded to the west, taking a strip ten miles wide from the west side of Vermilion County. 1833 – Iroquois County is founded to the north, and Vermilion County is extended by 6 miles on the north side. 1835 – Daniel Beckwith (after whom Danville was named) dies of pneumonia following a horseback ride from ...
Vermilion County in Illinois and Vermillion County in Indiana are two of twenty-two counties or parishes in the United States with the same name to border each other across state lines. [11] According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 901.28 square miles (2,334.3 km 2 ), of which 898.37 square miles (2,326.8 km 2 ) (or 99.68% ...
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.
Danville: Part of Kennekuk County Park since the 1970s [6] 3: Dale Building: Dale Building: January 27, 2000 : 101-103 N. Vermilion St. Danville: 4: Danville Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District
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.
Oct. 28—DANVILLE — A tree on a wall inside the Vermilion County Child Advocacy Center has paper leaves colored by children already helped by the new local center. One leaf talks about hope ...
Aug. 9—On Aug. 1, Robert Lazzell pleaded guilty to one count of criminal sexual assault and was sentenced to 12 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. Lazzell is the former principal ...
The First National Bank Building, known locally as the Bresee Tower, is a historic bank building at 2-4 N. Vermilion Street in Danville, Illinois.The building was constructed in 1918 for the First National Bank, which was established in 1857 and had operated in another building at the same site since 1867.