Chillicothe, Illinois Location of Chillicothe inside Illinois Location of Chillicothe inside Illinois Wikimedia Commons: Chillicothe, Illinois Chillicothe is a town/city on the Illinois River in Peoria County, Illinois, United States.
Chillicothe is just north of the town/city of Peoria and is part of the Peoria Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the 2010 census, Chillicothe has a total region of 5.415 square miles (14.02 km2), of which 5.13 square miles (13.29 km2) (or 94.74%) is territory and 0.285 square miles (0.74 km2) (or 5.26%) is water. Chillicothe is positioned on the Illinois River and on the alongside Iowa Interstate Railroad (IAIS) branch, from Bureau to Peoria, which was formerly the Rock Island Railroad.
Crossing the IAIS and the Illinois River at Chillicothe is the former Santa Fe Railroad, now owned by BNSF Railway.
Almost 4 miles outside of town the BNSF Railway operates one of the most notable civil engineering points on the Chillicothe Subdivision.
The Illinois River runs both north and south connecting Chicago with St.
Chillicothe sits along the Illinois River Valley where gravel and sand from prehistoric river evolution sits.
In Chillicothe there are mostly large service facilities and connections to the BNSF Railway.
Even though Chillicothe sits along a river valley, forests are very common.
The name Chillicothe comes from the name of the Shawnee Indian chief who lived in the region with the small-town tribe.
Along with Peoria, Chillicothe interval due to river traffic and quickly became a stop for barge and barns traffic traveling to and from Chicago and St.
In the late 1800s, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was building its mainline from Chicago to Kansas City and chose Chillicothe as its crossing point of the Illinois River.
The barns quickly became an establishment in Chillicothe as a crew change point and a notable stop in Central Illinois.
Chillicothe today still remains a key point on the Southern Transcon route between Chicago and Los Angeles with high recurrence intermodal freight trains moving through daily.
Chillicothe is served by the Illinois Valley School District 321.
Chillicothe is the major area served by the school precinct along with the neighboring villages of Rome, Mossville, Edelstein, and parts of Dunlap.
Chillicothe Junior High (CJH) serves the northern half of the school precinct (Grades 4-8) in Chillicothe proper while Mossville Junior High (Grades K-8) serves the southern part of the school district.
Illinois Valley Central High School (IVC) serves Chillicothe and is the home to the Grey Ghosts.
Most prominently, the IVC Marching Grey Ghosts have accumulated 14 state titles since 1990, most recently in 2014. In the IHSA, IVC were 2006 Class A Baseball State Champions, 2006 Boys' Basketball Class A State Runner-ups, 2006 Class A Scholastic Bowl State Runnerups, 2008 Class AA Baseball State Runner-ups, and most recently placed Third for Class AA Baseball in 2010.
Illinois Route 29 runs through Chillicothe north to south and is a strong artery running between I-180 in the north and Peoria to the south.
Since its creation the barns has connected Chillicothe to the outside world.
The Rock Island Railroad (now Iowa Interstate Railroad) serves Chillicothe alongsideing the Illinois River.
The Rock Island Rockets used to serve Chillicothe connecting Peoria & Chicago.
Chillicothe was once a stop on the Santa Fe's Super Chief (Chicago to Los Angeles) & Texas Chief (Lone Star) (Chicago to Houston) on the section of the run between Chicago and Galesburg.
In 1996, however, following the consolidation of the Burlington Northern and the Santa Fe barns s to form the BNSF, and a connection put in between the Burlington Northern line from Chicago and the Santa Fe's Chillicothe Subdivision at Cameron, Illinois, the Chief was rerouted to Galesburg over the BNSF's Mendota Subdivision (also used by the California Zephyr) through Naperville, Princeton, and Mendota.
Chillicothe City Hall. The former Santa Fe Railroad station in the city, and Edelstein Hill near the city, are prominent train watching locations.
The Chillicothe Historical Society Railroad Museum is positioned at Cedar and 3rd Streets in the old Rock Island depot. City of Chillicothe Chillicothe Historical Society Chillicothe Park District Municipalities and communities of Peoria County, Illinois, United States Chillicothe Elmwood Pekin Peoria West Peoria Akron Brimfield Chillicothe Elmwood Hallock Hollis Jubilee Kickapoo Limestone Logan Medina Millbrook Peoria City Twp.
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