Cheneyville, Illinois

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Cheneyville
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Grain elevator in Cheneyville
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Vermilion County's location in Illinois
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Cheneyville
Cheneyville's location in Vermilion County
Coordinates: 40°28′09″N87°35′05″W / 40.46917°N 87.58472°W / 40.46917; -87.58472 Coordinates: 40°28′09″N87°35′05″W / 40.46917°N 87.58472°W / 40.46917; -87.58472
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of Illinois.svg  Illinois
County Vermilion County
Township Grant Township
Established1871
Elevation
725 ft (221 m)
ZIP code
60942
Area code(s) 217
GNIS feature ID0406006 [1]

Cheneyville is an unincorporated community in Grant Township, Vermilion County, Illinois.

Grant Township, Vermilion County, Illinois Township in Illinois, United States

Grant Township is a township in Vermilion County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 6,028 and it contained 2,817 housing units.

Vermilion County, Illinois County in the United States

Vermilion County is a county in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Illinois, between the Indiana border and Champaign County. It was established in 1826 and was the 45th of Illinois' 102 counties. According to the 2010 United States Census, it had a population of 81,625, a decrease of 2.7% in 2000. It contains 21 incorporated settlements; the county seat and largest city is Danville.

Illinois State of the United States of America

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern and Great Lakes region of the United States. It has the fifth largest gross domestic product (GDP), the sixth largest population, and the 25th largest land area of all U.S. states. Illinois has been noted as a microcosm of the entire United States. With Chicago in northeastern Illinois, small industrial cities and immense agricultural productivity in the north and center of the state, and natural resources such as coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has a diverse economic base, and is a major transportation hub. Chicagoland, Chicago's metropolitan area, encompasses over 65% of the state's population. The Port of Chicago connects the state to international ports via two main routes: from the Great Lakes, via the Saint Lawrence Seaway, to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River, via the Illinois Waterway to the Illinois River. The Mississippi River, the Ohio River, and the Wabash River form parts of the boundaries of Illinois. For decades, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport has been ranked as one of the world's busiest airports. Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and, through the 1980s, in politics.

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History

Cheneyville was founded in 1871 and platted in 1880. It was named for J. H. Cheney, the vice-president of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad. A telephone system was installed in 1888 and soon had to be expanded due to rising demand. [2]

Lake Erie and Western Railroad

The Lake Erie and Western Railroad was a railroad that operated in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The Lake Erie and Western Depot Historic District at Kokomo, Indiana was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Geography

Cheneyville is located at 40°28′9″N87°35′5″W / 40.46917°N 87.58472°W / 40.46917; -87.58472 (40.4692031, -87.5847437), about four miles east of the village of Hoopeston and less than two miles south of the northern border of the county. The Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad passes through town and Illinois Route 9 runs about half a mile to the south.

Hoopeston, Illinois City in Illinois, United States

Hoopeston is a city in Grant Township, Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 5,351.

Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad

The Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad Company is a Class III railroad serving agricultural communities in east-central Illinois and west-central Indiana.

Illinois Route 9 (IL 9) is a 218.31-mile-long (351.34 km) cross-state, east–west rural state highway in the central part of the U.S. state of Illinois. It travels from Niota at the Fort Madison Toll Bridge, that crosses the Mississippi River into Iowa, eastward across central Illinois to State Road 26 (SR 26) at the Indiana state line.

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Cheneyville church

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References

  1. "Cheneyville". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved 2010-10-17.
  2. Stapp, Katherine; W. I. Bowman (1968). History Under Our Feet: The Story of Vermilion County, Illinois. Danville, Illinois: Interstate Printers and Publishers, Inc. p. 45.