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Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of McLean County, Illinois, United States.The 2020 census showed the city had a population of 78,680, [5] making it the 13th-most populous city in Illinois and the fifth-most populous outside the Chicago metropolitan area. [6]
Before the district was first nominated for the National Register, four houses on the east half of the block bounded by Indiana Avenue, Fess Avenue, Eighth Street and Ninth Street were demolished. Joseph Smith of the Showers Brothers furniture factory engaged John Nichols to build a two-story brick Colonial Revival house at 403 North Fess in ...
I-55 BL / Historic US 66 west (Veterans Parkway) – Chicago, St. Louis: Southern end of Historic Route 66 concurrency; interchange: 3.4: 5.5: US 150 east / IL 9 east (Locust Street) – Champaign, Gibson City, Central Illinois Regional Airport: One-way road (eastbound only) 3.7: 6.0: US 150 west / IL 9 west (Empire Street) – Peoria
IL 126 / Historic US 66 east (Main Street) – Chicago, Yorkville: 113.9: 183.3: IL 59 south / Historic US 66 west (Division Street, PFC Andrew Meari Memorial Highway) Eastern end of IL 59 concurrency: Joliet: 116.2: 187.0: I-55 (Barack Obama Presidential Expressway) – Chicago, Bloomington: I-55 exit 257: Crest Hill–Joliet line: 119.5: 192.3
The east and west faces of the building are home to the principal elevations. They feature three story porticos, a Corinthian pediment, balustrade caps and the cornice. The building's windows are decorated with Doric surrounds. [6] The architects wanted the building to give Bloomington residents the feeling that the courthouse belonged to them.
U.S. Route 50 (US 50) in the state of Illinois is an east–west highway across the southern portion of the state. It runs from the Jefferson Barracks Bridge, over the Mississippi River, to Missouri east, to the Red Skelton Memorial Bridge, over the Wabash River and to Indiana. This is a distance of 165.79 miles (266.81 km). [1]
U.S. Route 45 (US 45) in the state of Illinois is a major north–south U.S. Highway that runs from the Brookport Bridge over the Ohio River at Brookport north through rural sections of eastern Illinois and then through the suburbs of Chicago to the Wisconsin state line east of Antioch.
centering on 111th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago, the district extends east to I-94. The first planned industrial town in the nation, Pullman was founded in 1880 by George Pullman, inventor of the railroad sleeping car, for his workers. In 1894 violence connected with a strike over wage cuts caused President Cleveland to send ...