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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.
Illinois legislator murdered by a tenant: Hale Johnson: Bogota: 1902-11-04: Prohibition Part presidential candidate; shot to death while trying to collect a debt: Murder of Clarence Hiller: Chicago: 1910-09-19: Railroad clerk murdered, first use of fingerprint evidence for conviction: Elsie Paroubek: Chicago: 1911-04-08
Lincoln Courthouse Square Historic District, Logan County East Dubuque School, Jo Daviess County Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County Illinois State Capitol, Sangamon County Dennis Otte Round Barn, Stephenson County Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, Lee County Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria County General Dean Suspension Bridge, Clinton County
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Macon County, Illinois" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
According to the US Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 586 square miles (1,520 km 2), of which 581 square miles (1,500 km 2) is land and 5.2 square miles (13 km 2) (0.9%) is water. [4] Macon County is primarily flat, as is most of the state and all of the surrounding counties, the result of geological activity during the Pleistocene ...
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Warrensburg is located in northwestern Macon County at (39.931102, -89.061326). [3] Illinois Route 121 passes through the northeast side of the village, leading southeast 9 miles (14 km) to Decatur, the county seat, and northwest 14 miles (23 km) to Mount Pulaski.
In the early hours of 3 June 1893, a black day-laborer named Samuel J. Bush was forcibly taken from the Macon County, Illinois, jail and lynched. [1] [2] Mr. Bush stood accused of raping Minnie Cameron Vest, a white woman, who lived in the nearby town of Mount Zion.