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Union was the site of the world's first fully automatic electrical substation, on the current site of the water tower just east of Main Street. [11] Union is home to the Illinois Railway Museum and the McHenry County Historical Society. [12] It was formerly the home of Donley's Wild West Town amusement park, now closed. [13]
Union is an unincorporated community in Logan County, Illinois, United States. Union is located east of Emden and west of Atlanta. References
Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 United States Census , it had a population of 17,244. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Jonesboro . [ 2 ]
Illinois's FIPS state code is 17 and its postal abbreviation is IL. What is now Illinois was claimed as part of Illinois County, Virginia, between 1778 and 1782. Modern-day county formation dates to 1790 when the area was part of the Northwest Territory; two counties—St. Clair and Knox—were created at that time.
The Illinois Railway Museum (IRM, reporting mark IRMX) is the largest railroad museum in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is located in the Chicago metropolitan area at 7000 Olson Road in Union, Illinois , 55 miles (89 km) northwest of downtown Chicago .
Local government in the Illinois Territory, and the state of Illinois after 1818 statehood, was predominantly handled by the state's counties, although towns and villages also existed. Chicago was chartered as the state's first city in 1837.
Location of Union County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Union County, Illinois.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Union County, Illinois, United States.
The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the Union Stockyards was Vanderbilt ...