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The South Side German Historic District is a neighborhood within Quincy, Illinois, United States just south of downtown. The neighborhood includes most of Quincy's rich German architecture. The region is also widely known as "Calftown", named for the number of calves once owned by its inhabitants. [1]
Washington Park is Quincy's first park and was once known as John's Square, after city founder John Wood. [29] [30] It was the site of the sixth famous debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas over the divisive issue of slavery and national union, where a crowd of 10–15,000 people came to hear the two men speak. [31]
Maid-Rite is an American casual dining franchise restaurant chain. Before it became a restaurant chain, it was a single restaurant, opened in 1926 by Fred Angell.By the end of the 1920s, four franchises were granted; these four restaurants are still in operation.
Originally Hickory Grove was left untouched by the urban sprawl of Quincy, but in the early 1990s Illinois Route 336 was upgraded to Interstate Highway standards as Interstate 172. In 2004, construction began on the Prairie Crossing Shopping Complex (now known as Prairie Trail) which once completed more traffic would head towards their way ...
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Washington Park was the first park in Quincy, IL. It is located downtown and sits on 4 acres (1.6 ha). Washington Park served as one of the locations in Illinois for the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Quinsippi Island is accessible through the All-American Park and comprises 130 acres (53 ha). Bob Mays Park sits on fifty acres of land and opened in 2008.
The S.J. Lesem Building is a historic commercial building located at 135-37 North 3rd Street in Quincy, Illinois.The building was constructed in 1871 for S.J. Lesem Brothers and Company, a dry goods firm founded in 1859; it is the only survivor of the four commercial buildings which once occupied the block, which was known as Wholesale Row.
Quincy Town Center, formerly Quincy Mall, is a shopping mall and office complex in Quincy, Illinois. It was formerly known as Quincy Mall from 1978 to 2021 [2] and was originally an outdoor complex called the American Legion Miracle Mile Town and Country Shopping Center. [3] The outdoor shopping center opened in 1958.