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Woodstock is a city in and the county seat of McHenry County, Illinois, United States. It is located 51 miles northwest of Chicago , making it one of the city's outer-most suburbs . [ 2 ] Per the 2020 census , the population was 25,630. [ 3 ]
In 1965, the Illinois General Assembly named the area after William W. Powers. [1] Powers had been a Chicago alderman on the Chicago City Council and Illinois General Assembly legislator in the 1920s, and used the site for picnics to feed the needy during the Great Depression. [3] The park also has a military history.
Illinois Route 47 (IL 47) is a 169.76-mile-long (273.20 km) largely rural north–south state highway that runs from the Wisconsin state border at Highway 120 near Hebron, to IL 10, just south of Interstate 72 (I-72) near Seymour. [1]
The Old McHenry County Courthouse faces the Woodstock public square. The Italianate structure was built out of brick with limestone trim. With four identical, 20-by-44-square-foot (1.9 m 2 × 4.1 m 2 ) wings around a 44-square-foot (4.1 m 2 ) core, the building resembles a Greek cross.
Illinois Route 120 (IL 120) is a major east–west state highway in northeastern Illinois.It runs from U.S. Route 14 near Woodstock to Illinois Route 131 in Waukegan.It travels a distance of 34.62 miles (55.72 km) [1] and is one of the few roads that provides direct access from McHenry County to Interstate 94 (Tri-State Tollway) in Lake County.
Woodstock is 51.7 miles (83.2 km) from Chicago via Metra. [2] The station consists of two grade-level side platforms which serve two tracks; there is a rail crossover located just north of the station. As of 2018, Woodstock is the 149th busiest of the 236 non-downtown stations on the Metra system, with an average of 273 weekday boardings. [1]
They are partitioned by Illinois River, S Front St, E High St, N 2nd St, E Court St, E Mulberry St, N 3rd St, N 4th St, N 6th St, E Sycamore St, S 5th St, Coffee Creek, Illinois Highway 26, and N 600th Ave. The 14th district takes in the municipalities of Granville, Standard, and Mark; and most of Hennepin.
Before the late 1930s, US 14 followed present-day IL 31 south of Crystal Lake, IL 72 east of West Dundee, Nagle Avenue, and Addison Street before terminating at Lake Shore Drive (US 41). [4] In the late 1930s, the designation was rerouted to follow most of its current designation which directly connected to Park Ridge and Niles via Busse ...