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May 11, 1992 (215-217 W. Main: Ottawa: 13: LaSalle City Building: LaSalle City Building: August 29, 1985 (745 2nd St. LaSalle: 14: LaSalle Downtown Commercial District
The Ottawa Commercial Historic District is a historic district in downtown Ottawa, Illinois. The district includes 195 buildings and structures, most of them commercial buildings, spread out over 26 city blocks. The oldest buildings in the district, located near the Illinois and Fox rivers, were built in the 1830s.
Hen House Interstate, Inc. was a Chesterfield, Missouri-based company that owned and operated a chain of restaurants that at one time had up to 40 locations on the American Interstate highway system throughout Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Kansas. [1]
Oldest surviving house in Johnson County; built 1843; Fryer House – Home of pioneer Walter Fryer; built 1811; Glen Willis – built 1815; Hausgen House – Colonial Revival style house; built c. 1890; Hawkins House – Has served as a ropewalk and a dormitory for the Georgetown Female Seminary. Became a residential home in 1858; built c. 1790
Oldest college building in Illinois and the first built in the state Mermaid House Hotel: Lebanon, Illinois: 1830 Hotel Built by Lyman Adams. Visited by Charles Dickens in 1842. Noble–Seymour–Crippen House: Chicago, Illinois: 1833 Residence The oldest building in Chicago Vandalia State House: Vandalia, Illinois: 1836 Capitol Building Oldest ...
How one of the best restaurants in Peoria, Illinois, became "the most infamous restaurant in the state." ... In April, a then-73-year-old woman died — the first and only fatality of the outbreak.
Reddick served in the Illinois State Senate and returned to live in Ottawa, and the house, when he left office. He was known as one of Ottawa's colorful characters of the day and as a humanitarian. It is reported that Reddick housed runaway slaves in his mansion as a "station" on the Underground Railroad. He lived in the mansion until died in 1885.
The Ottawa East Side Historic District is a residential historic district in eastern Ottawa, Illinois. The district is located on a peninsula formed by the confluence of the Fox River and Illinois River and is only connected to the rest of Ottawa by a single bridge. The area's relative isolation caused the city's businesses and industries to ...