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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 ...
The West End Historic District is a residential historic district located in western Decatur, Illinois. The district, which was primarily built in the first half of the 20th century, includes over 1,700 contributing buildings. The West End was a popular neighborhood for Decatur's business owners and managers at its large industries, and the ...
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 .
Interstate 72, U.S. Route 51, U.S. Route 36, Illinois Route 48, Illinois Route 105, and Illinois Route 121 are key highway links for the area. The Decatur Public Transit System (DPTS) provides fixed-route bus service as well as complementary door-to-door paratransit service for people with disabilities, who are unable to use the bus system ...
This is a list of the area codes in the state of Illinois and its numbering plan areas in the North American Numbering Plan.. All NPAs within Illinois. 217/447: Central Illinois, including the region running west from the Illinois-Indiana border through Danville, Effingham, Champaign–Urbana, Decatur, Springfield, Quincy until Illinois' western border with Missouri and Iowa
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
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.
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 ...