Rochelle, Illinois Rochelle, Illinois Sign seen entering the town/city of Rochelle Sign seen entering the town/city of Rochelle Official seal of Rochelle, Illinois Rochelle, Illinois is positioned in Ogle County, Illinois Rochelle, Illinois - Rochelle, Illinois Show map of Ogle County, Illinois Rochelle is a town/city in Ogle County, Illinois, United States.
Rochelle is approximately 80 miles (130 km) west of Chicago and 25 miles (40 km) south of Rockford.
Later in the small-town pharmacy, some of the town/city fathers were discussing the lured of lack of citizens coming to reside in the town.
One of the men reached up on a shelf and picked up a bottle of Rochelle Salts, saying Rochelle would be a good name for the town. After World War II, Rochelle grew, becoming a center for Swift Meat Packing and Del Monte canned vegetables such as asparagus, corn, green beans, and peas.
Rochelle is positioned along the Kyte River (commonly, if inaccurately, known to most locals as "Kyte Creek").
According to the 2010 census, Rochelle has a total region of 12.919 square miles (33.46 km2), of which 12.9 square miles (33.41 km2) (or 99.85%) is territory and 0.019 square miles (0.05 km2) (or 0.15%) is water. In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.1% under the age of 18, 10.1% from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 19.6% from 45 to 64, and 14.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $37,984, and the median income for a family was $46,563.
About 7.6% of families and 10.4% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 11.1% of those under age 18 and 4.3% of those age 65 or over.
Rochelle is served by two separate school districts.
Rochelle Community Consolidated District 231 serves Rochelle and limited areas just outside town.
District 231 has four elementary schools serving grades K 5: Abraham Lincoln Elementary, Central Elementary, Floyd J.
The precinct also operates one middle school, Rochelle Middle School, serving grades 6 8.
Rochelle Township High School District 212 operates Rochelle Township High School.
About half of the high school's students come from Rochelle and District 231; the remaining students come from a number of outlying communities, including Kings, Steward, Creston, Hillcrest, Esmond, and Lindenwood.
Rochelle Railroad Park has spawned many imitators, such as the Railroad Platform in Folkston, Georgia.
For many years the Whitcomb Locomotive Works, established by George Dexter Whitcomb, produced industrial locomotives as well as the Partin Palmer automobile, in Rochelle.
Rochelle is also home to Union Pacific's Global III Intermodal Facility.
Rochelle owns and operates Rochelle Municipal Airport.
Rochelle is known as the "Hub City" because of its locale at the intersection of a several major transit routes.
The first transcontinental highway in the United States, the Lincoln Highway, passed through Rochelle, as did US-51, one of the first highways to go the full north-south length of the United States.
Both these roads have diminished in importance (and are now state highways 38 and 251, in the order given), but Rochelle continues to be crossed by primary highways, especially Interstates 88 and 39.
Besides roadways, Rochelle is also crossed by two primary rail lines; the Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway mainlines cross inside of the town/city limits. The effect, as seen on a map, was one of the spokes of an old wagon wheel meeting at the "hub", and thus the nickname was born.
Rochelle was once a stop for passenger trains directed by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and its successor, the Burlington Northern, such as North Coast Limited.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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