Chenoa, Illinois City of Chenoa Township Chenoa Location of Chenoa inside Illinois Chenoa is a town/city in Mc - Lean County, Illinois, United States.
Scott, Chenoa was created to furnish a retail and trade center for his farm tenants as well as a grain shipping facility.
The Chenoa Centennial was jubilated in 1954.
They are Schuirman's Drug Store (now Chenoa Pharmacy) and Union Roofing.
A well attended July 4 celebration is held in Chenoa each year.
Signage upon entering Chenoa.
Chenoa is positioned at 40 44 35 N 88 43 12 W (40.743136, -88.720079). According to the 2010 census, Chenoa has a total region of 2.475 square miles (6.41 km2), of which 2.43 square miles (6.29 km2) (or 98.18%) is territory and 0.045 square miles (0.12 km2) (or 1.82%) is water. Situated in Mc - Lean County, the region surrounding Chenoa boasts some of the richest soil in the world.
Chenoa has a Humid continental climate (Koppen climate classification Dfa), with hot, humid summers and cold, slightly drier winters.
Climate data for Chenoa, Illinois (1981 2010 normals) Downtown Chenoa, Illinois in mid-March 2007.
Founding of Chenoa The Town of Chenoa was laid out on 13 May 1856 by Matthew T.
Scott anticipated the place where the barns s would cross and platted the town which he called Chenoa.
Scott (24 February 1828 - 21 May 1891) was the son of a Kentucky banker and by the time he reached Illinois, was an experienced territory developer who led a group of well financed investors.
The European settlement history of Chenoa began in 1854 when Matthew T.
The Name Chenoa There has been much discussion about the meaning of the name Chenoa.
Callary makes it clear that this is incorrect and that this meaning is unknown in Kentucky. Others explain that Chenoa is a Cherokee word meaning "Dove" or "White Dove." The barns had no say in the naming of Chenoa; the spelling "Chenoa" is exactly how Scott recorded the name when he first laid out the town.
However,"Chenoka" or "Chenoa" is one of many Native American names for the Kentucky River and this may explain how Scott got the idea that the word could be interpreted as Kentucky. Design of Chenoa The plan of Chenoa is complex because it is the blending of two rival townsites.
Scott's initial town, which lies west of the barns , was assembled around a central park, is much more like the plan like central Illinois suburbs of the 1830s than that of other suburbs laid out in the 1850s. However, Scott only owned the in Section 2, while his rival, and former company companion, William Marshall had managed to purchase Section 1.
Marshall's territory included most of the territory east of the barns ; on this land, he laid out a competing town, East Chenoa.
Scott did control a small strip between the two suburbs which he refused to plat out into streets and lots, so anyone who tried to pass the short distance from one town to the other would be guilty of trespass.
The duel nature of the platting also explains why Chenoa had two distinct streets titled Lincoln. Both Scott's and Marshall's suburbs were orthogonal grids with north-south and east-west streets, but plan became still more complex when a later addition by Scott encompassed Veto Street, which ran alongside to the barns and at an odd angle to the earlier streets.
Selling Chenoa The first advertisement for the town of Chenoa appeared under the bold heading, GREAT SALE OF LOTS IN THE TOWN OF CHENOA, MAY 15 1856.
Development of Chenoa The great lured with the evolution of Chenoa was that, before the town was laid out, there had been no settlement in the encircling country.
The territory around Chenoa was prairie wilderness.
Government to regions west of the Mississippi river by the time Chenoa was founded.
Scott aided the evolution of close-by land by plowing and cultivating 16,000 acres (65 km2), building two hundred homes, and planting twenty-seven miles of hedge fences. The first structures inside the limits of the new town were two little half-sod and half-board dugouts which served as depot, freight home, and shelter for barns section hands; this is one of the very several mentions of sod homes in Mc - Lean County. J.
Lenney came from Pennsylvania to the new town of Chenoa and in 1855 put up the frame building here which was called "The Farmer's Store." All of these buildings were on the east side of the tracks. In 1864 Chenoa, East Chenoa, and a several additions were united under one town government which was confirmed by a special act of the Illinois General Assembly in 1869. A union station was assembled so both barns s could share passenger facilities; unfortunately it burned down amid Armistice celebrations on 11 November 1918. This was not the suburbs only serious July 1894 the entire company precinct town east of the Railroad burned down; very several of the buildings were insured. Railroad traffic peaked in 1911, when twenty-four trains arrived. After that automobile and truck traffic slowly replaced trains and Chenoa became a stop of the fabled Route 66.
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It is closely associated with many affairs in the history of Chenoa.
Stevenson I (1835 1914), who held many meaningful government positions and would turn into the 23rd Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897, courted Scott's sister-in-law, Letitia Green; their wedding took place in this home in 1866.
A crumbling rail station in Chenoa *Depot has since been torn down, apparently amid fall 2009 Stan Albeck, basketball head coach, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, San Antonio Spurs, was born and attended high school in Chenoa.
Lewis Stevenson, Illinois secretary of state, son of 23rd Vice President of the United States Adlai Stevenson I and father of 1952 and 1956 Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson II, was born in Chenoa. "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
History of Mc - Lean County, Illinois (Chicago: Le Baron, 1879) p.
Callary, Edward, The Place Names of Illinois (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009)p.67.
Coonley, Reminiscences of Chenoa and its Inhabitants Prior to 1887 (Chicago 1933) pp.
Mc - Lean County Combined Atlases, 1853- - 1914 (Bloomington: Mc - Lean County Historical Society and Mc - Lean County Genealogical Society, 2006) p.
Chenoa (Chenoa Centennial Committee, 1859) p.9.
Chenoa, 1959, p.
Chenoa, 1959, p.13.
Chenoa, 1957, pp.
Chenoa 1859 p.15.
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Chenoa 1959, p.
Official Chenoa town/city website Municipalities and communities of Mc - Lean County, Illinois, United States
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