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Canton is located in northeastern Fulton County at Illinois Routes 9 and 78 pass through the downtown together. IL 9 leads east 8 miles (13 km) to Banner near the Illinois River and west 27 miles (43 km) to Bushnell, while IL 78 leads north 10 miles (16 km) to Farmington and south 11 miles (18 km) to Little America in the Illinois River valley.
Leclaire, Illinois, founded by N. O. Nelson (the owner of the Nelson Manufacturing Company) and named in honor of Edme-Jean Leclaire. Pullman, Chicago, once an independent city within Illinois, owned by the Pullman Sleeping Car Co. Naplate, built and formerly owned by the National Plate Glass Co.
Cicero is a factory town. As of 1999, about a quarter of the city contained one of the greatest industrial concentrations in the world. There were more than 150 factories in 1.7 mi (2.8 km), producing communications and electronic equipment, sugar, printing presses, steel castings, tool and die makers' supplies, forging and rubber goods.
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NC officials spoke recently with the Illinois company that shut down the 1,000-employee Canton paper mill about "clawing back" $12M in incentives. NC officials spoke recently with the Illinois ...
Manufacturing in Illinois accounts for 14% of the state's total output and generates $101 billion in economic activity. [15] Illinois's manufacturing sector grew out of its agricultural production. A key piece of infrastructure for several generations was the Union Stock Yards of Chicago, which from 1865 until 1971 penned and slaughtered ...
Canton Repository. October 21, 2024 at 9:49 AM ... − The 1200 block of Prospect Avenue SW and Fifth Street NE at Young Avenue will be closed for five days beginning today to repair the railroad ...
The Ulysses G. Orendorff House is a historic house located at 345 West Elm Street in Canton, Illinois.The house was built in 1902 for Ulysses G. Orendorff, the son of Parlin & Orendorff co-founder W. J. Orendorff; the company, the most successful in Canton, manufactured farming equipment and was later sold to International Harvester.