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Decatur and Macon County Welfare Home for Girls: August 12, 1999 (#99000982) August 14, 2004: 736 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Decatur: Also known as Webster Hall. Demolished December 10, 2003. [5] 2: Millikin Building: July 24, 1979 (#79000853) July 24, 1980: 100 N. Water St. Decatur: Demolished in June 1980.
While downtown Decatur was platted in 1829, it did not experience significant commercial development until 1854, when two railroads built lines through the city; all but one of the district's contributing buildings were built between 1854 and 1916. The district includes many of the commercial buildings which were built in the economic boom ...
The Decatur Historic District is a residential historic district in the Millikin Heights neighborhood of Decatur, Illinois.The district encompasses the city's historic Near West and Southwest neighborhoods and was formed beginning in the 1850s and continuing through the 1920s.
Macon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 United States Census, it had a population of 103,998. [1] Its county seat and most populous city is Decatur. [2] Macon County comprises the Decatur, IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Central Illinois. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 70,522. [4] It is the seventeenth-most populous city in Illinois. [5] Decatur has an economy based on industrial and agricultural commodity processing and production.
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[17] [18] A barrow-wight features in the low-budget 1991 Russian adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring, Khraniteli, apparently the first moving picture to include the character. [19] Barrow-wights have appeared in the second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. VFX supervisor Jason Smith described their adaptation as "ancient ...
State law specifies that no two townships in Illinois shall have the same name, [3] and that, if the Illinois Secretary of State compares the township abstracts and finds a duplicate, the county that last adopted the name shall instead adopt a different name at the next county board meeting. [4]