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The Illinois Department of Transportation, who maintained the US 51 highway route through Decatur, requested it be removed, and in 1962, the structure was transported by truck to nearby Central Park, where it stands today. In that location, it has served as a bus shelter, a visitor information center, and civic group offices.
The Decatur Public Transit system (DPTS) operates 15 bus routes and a downtown trolley route on a pulse system with buses departing the downtown Transit Center at 15 and 45 minutes past each hour. Hours of operation are Monday through Friday from 5:30 A.M. to 7:15 P.M. and on Saturday from 6:15 A.M. to 7:15 P.M. Up until 2022, no service was ...
Added to NRHP. December 3, 2002. The Transfer House is a historic building located in Central Park in Decatur, Illinois. Built in 1896, the building originally served as a transfer point for Decatur's electric streetcar system. Architect William W. Boyington 's design for the building was influenced by a number of Victorian styles, particularly ...
McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, Chicago, closed in 2009. Motorola Museum of Electronics, Schaumburg [85][86] Museum of Funeral Customs, Springfield, closed in 2009. Museum of Holography, Chicago [87] National Museum of Surveying, Springfield, closed in 2013. Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, closed in 2015.
September 9, 2018. (2018-09-09) –Present. Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge) Length. 182 mi (293 km) The Decatur & Eastern Illinois Railroad (reporting mark DREI) is a Class III [1] American regional railroad that is a subsidiary of Watco operating in eastern Illinois and western Indiana.
217. The Champaign-Decatur CSA, also known as East Central Illinois CSA, is a combined statistical area in the U.S. State of Illinois. It is the 104th largest combined statistical area in the U.S. It is composed of four counties, Champaign, Ford, Piatt and Macon . The area has a population of 344,440 as determined by the 2010 U.S. Census. [1]
The Decatur station, also known as the Wabash Railroad Station and Railway Express Agency, is a historic railway station located at 780 East Cerro Gordo Street in Decatur, Illinois. Built in 1901, the station served trains on the Wabash Railroad, the most economically significant railroad through Decatur. Architect Theodore Link designed the ...
74000765 [1] Added to NRHP. December 3, 1974. The James Millikin House is a historic house located at 125 N. Pine St. in Decatur, Illinois. The house was built in 1876 for James Millikin, a wealthy Decatur businessman who later founded Millikin University. The house has a towered Italianate design which has been called the "most imposing ...