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Old U.S. Route 66 between Cabin Smoke Trail and north bank of the Sangamon River: Springfield: 52: Route 66 South of Lake Springfield: Route 66 South of Lake Springfield: May 12, 2009 : Old U.S. Route 66/Olde Carriage Way
Lake Springfield is a 3,965-acre (16.05 km 2) [1] reservoir in the southeast of the capital city of Springfield, Illinois.It is 560 ft (170 m) above sea level. The lake was formed by building Spaulding Dam across Sugar Creek, a tributary of the Sangamon River.
Lake Springfield: 1933-1934 Vachel Lindsay Home: 603 S 5th St 1848 Greek Revival November 11, 1971 Virgil Hickox House: 518 E Capitol Ave c. 1839 March 5, 1982 William Beedle House 411 S 8th St 1840 Witmer-Schuck Building 630 E Washington St 1867 Zimmerman Paint Store Building 417 E Adams St c. 1860-1870
U.S. Route 66 was a highway established on November 11, 1926, connecting Chicago, Illinois to the Southwest.Several buildings from the Route 66 era still stand and are part of the Historic and Architectural Resources of Route 66 Through Illinois Multiple Property Submission on the National Register of Historic Places.
IL 125 (Clear Lake Avenue) – Petersburg US 54 east (Sangamon Avenue) – Clinton: east end of US 54 overlap US 66 Bus. west (Peoria Road) IL 124 west (Old Tipton School Road) – Andrew, Athens: Logan: Lincoln: IL 10 (Woodlawn Road) / IL 121 south – Mason City, Lincoln, Clinton, Decatur: west end of IL 121 overlap: IL 121 north – Hartsburg
Lick Creek is a 30.6-mile-long (49.2 km) [1] tributary of Lake Springfield and thus a tributary of the Sangamon River in central Illinois. [2] It drains a large portion of southwestern Sangamon County and a marginal adjacent fragment of southeastern Morgan County. The drainage of Lick Creek includes all of Loami, Illinois and part of Chatham ...
The lake was bought by the City of Springfield in the 2000s as a backup water source. George Donner, of the infamous Donner Party, lived in the Clear Lake area with his family and is buried at Oak Hill cemetery in Clear Lake. The village of Clear Lake was incorporated by referendum in 1955. [3] The first slate of officers were all members of a ...
The original alignment followed (from south–north) what used to be part of IL 1, IL 140, IL 25, IL 44, IL 51, and IL 46 before terminating at US 12. [5] These state routes were eventually either truncated or removed as of 1935. [6] That same year, US 45 was extended north from Des Plaines, Illinois to Michigan.