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Arthur L Pillsbury

Arthur L. Pillsbury was an architect that designed schools, churches, businesses, and homes, in the early 20th century. His buildings represent some of the best examples of fine architecture in Central Illinois.

Aviation

Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. Aircraft includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as hot air balloons and airships.

Baseball and Softball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field.

Basketball

A sport in which two teams compete with the primary objective of throwing a basketball through the opposing team's hoop.

Birds

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Boxing

Christmas

An annual winter holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed on December 25.

Circus

A traveling company of entertainers who give performances, often in a large tent.

Civil War

Corn

Dogs

Elementary School

Food and Restaurants

Football

Golf

Great Depression

Halloween

High School

Historic Marker

Horses

Illinois State University (ISU)

Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU)

Infrastructure

Institutional Racism

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Kids having fun

Maple Sirup

MCMH History Makers

Mennonite Hospital

Miller Park

Mississippian

Now it is a parking lot

Places that are now parking lots.

Railroad

Route 66

State Farm Insurance

Summer

Thanksgiving

The Pantagraph

The Pantagraph or the Daily Pantagraph newspaper.

Tornado

Urban Renewal

Vietnam War

Vocational Schools

Winter

World War One (WWI)

World War Two (WWII)