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The Fairbury Fair, Central States Threshermen’s Reunion and Harvest Days bring an end to the summer events and kick off the fall season in the communities of Fairbury, Pontiac and Dwight.
It was filmed on location in Pontiac and Fairbury, Illinois. After being out of print on VHS for many years, the film was released on DVD on October 4, 2011.
The earliest known Chicago-to-St. Louis road was a former Native American Indian trail and stagecoach road that was renamed the Pontiac Trail in 1915. Route 66 began in Chicago and, once outside the metropolitan Chicago area, traveled down the Pontiac Trail through many cities and towns on its way southwest, including Joliet , Odell ...
Fairbury is a city in Livingston County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,633 at the 2020 census. [4] ... either in Pontiac or Normal. Notable people
Donors came from Strawn, Forrest, Chatsworth, Chenoa, Fairbury, Piper City, Cullom, Lexington, Cropsey and Gridley. The Lions Club furnished a Dave’s gift card to provide food for the donors and ...
Pontiac-area man's death leaves vacancy on county board. Gannett. Erich Murphy, Pontiac Daily Leader. March 6, 2024 at 1:35 AM ... Runyon, 63, of Fairbury, had served on the county board since ...
The modern town of Cornell is a blending of two towns founded at almost the same time. Both were attempting to attract a station on the new Fairbury Pontiac and Northwestern Railroad, which eventually became part of the Wabash Railroad. [4] The town of Cornell was laid out by Walter P. Cornell (April 3, 1811 – May 5, 1889) on June 15, 1871.
Streetcar service was operated locally in Lincoln and Pontiac until 1929 and 1925 respectively, when both cities had their streetcar systems replaced with buses. [1] In 2020 and 2022, SHOW Bus and Kankakee County received two grants as part of Rebuild Illinois to replace vehicles and upgrade a vehicle storage facility.