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U.S. Representative from Illinois Buried in Decatur (Greenwood Cemetery) Rolla C. McMillen: Oct 5, 1880: May 6, 1961: U.S. Representative from Illinois Lived in Decatur Richard James Oglesby: Jul 25, 1824: Apr 24, 1899: U.S. senator and the 14th governor of Illinois: Grew up in Decatur Thomas D. Westfall: May 14, 1927: Mar 7, 2005: Mayor of El ...
Twila Shively (March 20, 1920 – November 25, 1999) was an American competitive baseball player. An outfielder, she played from 1945 through 1950 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m), 128 lb., she batted and threw right-handed. [1]
For 45 years, [8] J. Thomas McNamara wrote a weekly sports column in the Decatur Tribune titled "Irish Stew", covering Central Illinois high school sports. In 2015 he received the Illinois High School Association distinguished media service award. McNamara was a member of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame, Macon County Sports ...
Decatur city, Illinois Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [39] Pop 2010 [38] Pop 2020 [2] % 2000 % 2010 % ...
While downtown Decatur was platted in 1829, it did not experience significant commercial development until 1854, when two railroads built lines through the city; all but one of the district's contributing buildings were built between 1854 and 1916. The district includes many of the commercial buildings which were built in the economic boom ...
The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Decatur, Illinois, and its surrounding metropolitan area, including Macon County, Illinois. Subcategories
Macon is a city [3] in Macon County, Illinois, United States whose population was 1,177 at the 2020 census. [2] It is included in the Decatur, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area and lies 9 miles (14 km) south of Decatur.
The Decatur Historic District is a residential historic district in the Millikin Heights neighborhood of Decatur, Illinois.The district encompasses the city's historic Near West and Southwest neighborhoods and was formed beginning in the 1850s and continuing through the 1920s.