๐บ๐ธ Decatur is the largest city and the county seat of Macon County in the U.S. state of Illinois. The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Central Illinois. Decatur is the seventeenth-most populous city in Illinois.
The city is home of private Millikin University and public Richland Community College. Decatur has an economy based on industrial and agricultural commodity processing and production, including the North American headquarters of agricultural conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland, international agribusiness Tate & Lyle's largest corn-processing plant, and the designing and manufacturing facilities for Caterpillar Inc.'s wheel-tractor scrapers, compactors, large wheel loaders, mining class motor grader, off-highway trucks, and large mining trucks.
1History The Potawatomi Trail of Death passed through Decatur in 1838.
Post No. 1 of the Grand Army of the Republic was founded by Civil War veterans in Decatur on April 6, 1866.
The Edward P. Irving House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1911, is located at No. 2 Millikin Place, Decatur. In addition, the Robert Mueller Residence, 1 Millikin Place, and the Adolph Mueller Residence, 4 Millikin Place, have been attributed to Wright's assistants Hermann V. von Holst and Marion Mahony.
1Geography The Decatur Metropolitan Statistical Area includes surrounding towns of Argenta, Boody, Blue Mound, Elwin, Forsyth, Harristown, Long Creek, Macon, Maroa, Mount Zion, Niantic, Oakley, Oreana, and Warrensburg.
1Industry Decatur has production facilities for Caterpillar, Archer Daniels Midland, Mueller Co., and Primient (previously Tate & Lyle, A. E. Staley).
Caterpillar Inc. has one of its largest manufacturing plants in the U.S. in Decatur. This plant produces Caterpillar's off highway trucks, wheel-tractor scrapers, compactors, large wheel loaders, mining-class motorgraders, and their ultra-class mining trucks (including the Caterpillar 797). Archer Daniels Midland processes corn and soybeans, Mueller produces water distribution products and Tate & Lyle processes corn in Decatur.
Decatur has been ranked third in the nation as an Emerging Logistics and Distribution Center by Business Facilities: The Location Advisor, and was named a Top 25 Trade City by Global Trade. In 2013 the Economic Development Corporation of Decatur & Macon County established the Midwest Inland Port, a multi-modal transportation hub with market proximity to 95 million customers in a 500-mile radius. The port includes the Archer Daniels Midland intermodal container ramp, the two class I railroads that service the ramp and the city (the Canadian National Railway, and the Norfolk Southern Railway), five major roadways and the Decatur Airport. The Midwest Inland Port also has a foreign trade zone and customs clearing, and the area is both an enterprise zone and tax increment financing district.
In August 2019, Mueller Company announced plans to construct a "state-of-the-art" brass foundry in Decatur on a 30 acre site in the 2700 block of North Jasper Street. The facility is expected to employ 250 personnel.
In November 2020, ADM and InnovaFeed announced plans to construct the world's largest insect protein facility targeted to begin in 2021. The facility will be owned and operated by InnovaFeed and will co-locate with ADM's Decatur corn processing complex. This new project represents innovative, sustainable production to meet growing demand for insect protein in animal feed, a market that has potential to reach 1 million tons in 2027. Construction of the new high-capacity facility is expected to create more than 280 direct and 400 indirect jobs in the Decatur region by the second phase.
1Top employers According to the EDC of Decatur & Macon County, the top employers in Decatur are as follows: 1 Archer Daniels Midland; 2 Caterpillar Inc.; 3 Decatur Memorial Hospital; 4 Decatur Public Schools; 5 HSHS St. Mary's Hospital; 9 Akorn Incorporated; 6 Millikin University; 10 Primient; 8 Mueller Co.; 7 The Kelly Group.
1Colleges โข Millikin University (enrollment 2,400), a four-year institution of higher education, has a 75-acre (30ย ha) campus founded by James Millikin and was originally affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). โข Richland Community College (enrollment 3,500) is a comprehensive community college. It also hosts the biannual Farm Progress Show. โข Walther Theological Seminary is a Confessional Lutheran seminary affiliated with Pilgrim Lutheran Church.
1Air Decatur Airport is served by daily commercial flights on CRJ2 aircraft to and from Chicago-O'Hare International Airport by United Airlines.
1Rail For more than 100 years, Decatur has been a major railroad junction and was once served by seven railroads. After mergers and consolidations, it is now served by two Class I railroads: the Norfolk Southern Railway, and the Canadian National Railway. The city is also served by Decatur Junction Railway, Decatur Central Railroad and Decatur and Eastern Illinois Railroad shortlines.
1Road 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.
1Public transportation 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, throughout the City of Decatur. Under an agreement with the Village of Forsyth, service is also provided to the Hickory Point Mall area in Forsyth.
1State government facilities Decatur Correctional Center, a prison for women, is in the city.
1Decatur has a population of over 70,522 people. Decatur also forms the centre of the wider Macon County which has a population of over 110,768 people.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Decatur has links with:
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๐บ๐ธ Springfield 39.801
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๐บ๐ธ Bloomington -88.983
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Locations Near: Decatur -88.95,39.8333
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๐บ๐ธ Bloomington-Normal -88.985,40.508 d: 75.1
๐บ๐ธ Normal -88.989,40.512 d: 75.6
๐บ๐ธ Springfield -89.644,39.801 d: 59.3
๐บ๐ธ Champaign -88.267,40.1 d: 65.3
๐บ๐ธ Champaign-Urbana -88.241,40.116 d: 68.1
๐บ๐ธ Urbana -88.183,40.1 d: 71.8
๐บ๐ธ Peoria -89.593,40.693 d: 110
๐บ๐ธ Danville -87.617,40.117 d: 117.9
๐บ๐ธ Edwardsville -89.95,38.8 d: 143.5
Antipodal to: Decatur 91.05,-39.833
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