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The Old Second National Bank of Aurora was designed by George Grant Elmslie in 1924. The Prairie School style of design was, at this point, already a fading trend. Elmslie was nearing the end of his career and began to accept commissions for commercial buildings.
This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public ...
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Lincoln's work as an everyman's store clerk and trustworthy business owner helped lead to his nickname as "Honest Abe". [17] [18] [19] The 1930 film Abraham Lincoln features Lincoln's time as a storekeeper at the Lincoln-Berry store during the first act. The 1933–1934 Chicago World's Fair included a replica building exhibit of the Lincoln ...
Marion County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 37,729. [1] Its county seat is Salem. [2] Marion County comprises the Centralia, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL Combined Statistical Area.
The William Jennings Bryan Boyhood Home is a historic house located at 408 S. Broadway in Salem, Illinois. The house was the birthplace and boyhood home of William Jennings Bryan, three-time Democratic Party nominee for president. The two-story frame house was built in 1852 for Silas Bryan, an Illinois State Senator and father of William ...
Salem is located in central Marion County. U.S. Route 50 passes through the city center as Main Street, leading east 26 miles (42 km) to Flora and west 23 miles (37 km) to Carlyle.
Eisner Food Stores – downstate Illinois chain acquired by Jewel Food Stores, stores converted to the Jewel name by 1985; Family Mart – Florida-based Family Mart division of A&P was closed in 1999; Farmer Jack – Metro Detroit; acquired by A&P in 1989, closed July 7, 2007, then liquidated