Decatur (Illinois)
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Location in Illinois
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1823 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Illinois | ||
| County : | Macon County | ||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 51 ′ N , 88 ° 57 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
72,706 (as of 2016) 106,550 (as of 2016) |
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| Population density : | 611 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 119.0 km 2 (approx. 46 mi 2 ) of which 119.0 km 2 (approx. 46 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 206 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 62521 | ||
| Area code : | +1 217 | ||
| FIPS : | 17-18823 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 407044 | ||
| Website : | www.ci.decatur.il.us | ||
| Mayor : | Mike McElroy | ||
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Decatur is a city and county seat of Macon County in the US -amerikanischen state of Illinois . In 2016 Decatur had 72,706 inhabitants.
In the course of the transformation from an industrial society into a service society , the city is in the process of population decline .
Geographical location
Decatur is located approximately 293 kilometers southwest of Chicago , Illinois.
sons and daughters of the town
- Charles Brainard Taylor Moore (1853-1923), naval officer
- James Pendleton Lichtenberger (1870–1953), pastor and sociologist
- John G. Oglesby (1878-1938), politician
- Edwin B. Willis (1893–1963), production designer
- Helen Ferguson (1900–1977), actress of the silent film and early sound film era, later a publicist and press agent
- William H. Clothier (1903–1996), Oscar-nominated cameraman
- Karl August Folkers (1906–1997), biochemist
- Ivan Fuqua (1909-1994), sprinter
- Ken Overlin (1910-1969), middleweight boxer
- Harold Lichtenberger (1920–1993), physicist
- Red Hamilton (1926–2019), racing driver
- Nan Martin (1927–2010), film, television and theater actress
- Hugh Myers (1930–2008), chess player and opening theorist
- Richard Wayne Peck (1934–2018), youth writer, 2001 recipient of the National Humanities Medal and the John Newbery Medal for A Year Down Yonder
- Stephen E. Ambrose (1936–2002), historian, biographer of US Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon
- William K. Reilly (born 1940), Environmental Protection Agency Administrator and Manager
- James W. Loewen (* 1942), sociologist and author
- Michael D. Carleton (* 1944), zoologist
- Dan Spracklen (* around 1944), computer scientist and computer chess pioneer
- John Doe (* 1954), singer, songwriter, guitarist, bassist and actor
- Lauren Brice (1962-2015), porn actress
- Chad Gray (born 1971), singer
- Alison Krauss (* 1971), singer and fiddle player
- LaToya Bond (born 1984), basketball player
- Darius Adams (* 1989), basketball player
Twin cities
Decatur has had a town partnership with the Seevetal municipality in Lower Saxony since 1975 . In 1998 a partnership with Tokorozawa in Japan was agreed.
economy
Decatur is predominantly industrial. For example, AE Staley and Archer Daniels Midland have large factories for processing corn and soy products. There is also a Caterpillar manufacturing facility here. The tire manufacturer Firestone , which was taken over by Bridgestone in 1988 , had a tire factory in Decatur until 2001.
The city is a rail hub , but only for freight traffic . The marshalling yard despite its size, does not have a hump .
