Belvidere, Illinois Belvidere Immanuel Lutheran Church Belvidere Immanuel Lutheran Church in Belvidere Nickname: Illinois' City of Murals Boone County Illinois incorporated and unincorporated areas Belvidere highlighted.svg Location in Boone County and the state of Illinois.
Wikimedia Commons: Belvidere, Illinois Website: City of Belvidere Website Belvidere / b lv d r/ is a town/city in Boone County, Illinois, United States.
It is the governmental center of county of Boone County. Belvidere is part of the Rockford, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Belvidere is positioned at 42 15 17 N 88 50 39 W (42.254758, -88.844093), and sits at an altitude that is approximately 800 feet (240 m) above sea level.
Located in north central Illinois, Belvidere is approximately 75 miles (121 km) northwest of the downtown of Chicago, and approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of Rockford.
Belvidere is divided by the Kishwaukee River.
According to the 2010 census, Belvidere has a total region of 12.312 square miles (31.89 km2), of which 12.08 square miles (31.29 km2) (or 98.12%) is territory and 0.232 square miles (0.60 km2) (or 1.88%) is water. Belvidere is positioned in north central Illinois and is 75 miles from downtown Chicago on Routes 20, 76 and the Northern Illinois Toll road, with the Kishwaukee River dividing the town.
Belvidere is an industrialized improve surrounded by prosperous farms.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with shows 29.7% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 31.2% from 25 to 44, 18.1% from 45 to 64, and 12.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
Further information: Belvidere North State Street Historic District and Belvidere South State Street Historic District The locale where Belvidere exists today was first settled in 1835 by Simon P.
The present name is after the Schloss Belvedere in Germany. Belvidere was originally assembled on the north side of the river.
In 1851, a barns was assembled south of the river, the company section followed to the south side of the river, where Belvidere's downtown is now located. Belvidere was home to the National Sewing Machine Company from 1886 until the 1940s.
On April 21, 1967, a devastating tornado hit Belvidere.
The F4 tornado hit at the end of the school day of Belvidere High School, while many kids including those that attended region undertaking schools were waiting on school buses outside of the high school.
Out of sixteen school buses outside of the high school, twelve were overturned or thrown.
In 2007 a statue was erected in front of Belvidere High School in memorial of the lives lost.
In 1969 Belvidere native Judith Anne Ford won the Miss America pageant as Miss Illinois.
Ford was a Belvidere High School graduate.
On December 7, 2009 there was an explosion at the NDK America building. A truck driver from Indiana at the close-by Illinois Tollway Commission-owned Belvidere Oasis was killed by flying debris.
Pettit Memorial Chapel, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Lampert-Wildflower House, and the James Knox Taylor designed Belvidere Post Office are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Parks include Spencer Park, Belvidere Municipal Park, and the Boone County Fairgrounds.
Belvidere is known as the "City of Murals", for its various murals. The Left Behind series fictional character Rayford Steele was born there.
Belvidere used to have two hospitals, St.
Cemeteries include the Belvidere Cemetery (Richard S.
The nearest general aviation airport is Poplar Grove Airport, formerly known as Belvidere Airport.
Schools include Belvidere High School, Belvidere North High School, Belvidere Endeaver High School, Belvidere South Middle School, Belvidere Central Middle School, Kishwaukee Elementary School, Lincoln Elementary School, Perry Elementary School, Meehan Elementary School, Caledonia Elementary School, Seth Whitman Elementary, and one academy, Washington Academy which are all part of the Belvidere Community Unit School District 100.
Belvidere's enhance library, Ida Public Library, was formed in 1883.
Chrysler operates the Belvidere Assembly Plant, an auto assembly plant, originally constructed in the mid-1960s.
The Belvidere plant produced the Dodge Neon until the spring of 2005.
After a massive revamping of the Belvidere plant, it is now one of the most undivided auto assembly plants in the United States.
Other businesses with facilities or command posts in Belvidere include: "Election 2013: Mike Chamberlain takes Belvidere mayor race by 6 votes".
"Belvidere, Illinois (IL 61008, 61016) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, homes, news, sex offenders".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908).
"City of Belvidere | Illinois".
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