Columbia, Illinois Monroe County Illinois incorporated and unincorporated areas Columbia highlighted.svg Location in Monroe County and the state of Illinois.
Location of Illinois in the United States Wikimedia Commons: Columbia, Illinois Columbia is a town/city in Monroe and St.
State of Illinois, about 12 miles (19 km) south of St.
The first white pioneer to come to the region of Columbia, Illinois, were Frenchmen in the mid-17th century.
They titled the region in which Columbia was established L'Aigle, which is French for "The Eagle." The colonial American pioneer soon appeared in the early 1780s and established the first permanent settlements in the region of Columbia, Fort Whiteside and Fort Piggott.
Columbia is a poetic name for the United States.
United States territory agents had traveled to Germany to sell territory to emigrating Germans.
Entering the United States through New Orleans, these Germans went up the Mississippi River to St.
German thrift, tenacity, and industriousness changed the character of Columbia from a pioneer settlement to a grow community.
In the early 19th century, the American landowners in the Columbia region often hired the German immigrants who were not landowners as farmhands.
In 1859, Columbia was incorporated as a town as a result of the expansion from German immigration.
In 1927, Columbia became a city.
A notable feature of the improve spirit was evidenced by the high level of Columbia's interest in the St.
Today Columbia is a bedroom improve with a populace of about 10,000, mainly of German origin.
According to the 2010 census, Columbia has a total region of 10.476 square miles (27.13 km2), of which 10.41 square miles (26.96 km2) (or 99.37%) is territory and 0.066 square miles (0.17 km2) (or 0.63%) is water. Running in a diagonal line just northeast of Columbia is the border of St.
Waterloo and Columbia are expected to expanded right up to the borders of the other, in effect extending St.
In the city, the age distribution of the populace shows 25.0% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 20 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 27.9% from 45 to 64, and 14.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
Columbia is served by the enhance K-12 school precinct Columbia Community Unit District #4.
District #4 includes Eagleview Elementary School (pre-k 1), Parkview Elementary School (2-4), Columbia Middle School (5-8), and Columbia High School.
Illinois Route 158 has its end just south of the town/city off of Route 3 and joins Columbia with Millstadt.
Louis and continue over the Jefferson Barracks Bridge to Columbia, where they overlap again with Route 3 in an region just north of the city.
There is a small airport, Sackman Field, on the edge of town, titled for the former Columbia schools Music Director, Uhl Sackman.
A enhance bus service, provided by Metro - Bus, arrives in the morning and evening in Columbia and Waterloo and transports citizens to the Metro - Link station in East St.
Flag of Germany.svg In February 1992, the town/city of Columbia invited the town/city of Gedern, Germany to take part in the US American "people to citizens program" with the goal to establish a partnership.
Previously, people of Columbia had visited Gedern individually to search for their German ancestors.
The contacts, resulting from these visits and discoveries, were to be integrated into an official sister town/city arrangement between Columbia and Gedern so relations could precarious on this basis.
After the "Declaration of Friendship" on April 29, 1992, the mayors Lester Schneider of Columbia and Rainer Schwarz of Gedern signed the proclamation of the sister town/city arrangement on May 8, 1993.
Also on this day Barbara Gundlach, President of Verschwisterungsverein Gedern (Sister Cities of Gedern), was designated an honorary citizen of Columbia.
On May 7, 1993, Bill Clinton, in his congratulation letter to Columbia, stated that the partnership helped to overcome the barriers between the United States and Germany and advancement the relationships between citizens athwart the oceans.
Since then, as stated to the "people to citizens program", official delegations from Gedern were in Columbia in 1993, 1997, 2002, 2005, 2009, and 2013.
Delegations from Columbia were in Gedern in 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011.
Columbia Plaza shows the importance of the sister town/city arrangement in Gedern.
In Columbia, a street and a new subdivision were titled after Gedern, and October 6, 2001, was declared Sister City of Gedern, Germany, Day by the State of Illinois.
In view of the good cooperation between the two cities, Reader's Digest gave the Sister City Award to Gedern in 1993 for its share in securing world peace and understanding among nations by the sister town/city arrangement with Columbia.
This partnership was also titled the Illinois Sister City of the Year for 2013 as the organization jubilated its 20th anniversary.
City of Columbia, Illinois Municipalities and communities of Monroe County, Illinois, United States Clair County, Illinois, United States
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