140 East History
"Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings." - Jane Jacobs
Illinois Region 1718
100 years before Illinois became a state, the area was
1876 Bureau County Map
Bureau County was created from a portion of Putnam County in 1837. It was named for brothers Michel and Pierre Bureau, French Canadians, who operated a trading post near the intersection of the Big Bureau Creek and the Illinois River from 1776 until the 1780s.
Tiskilwa, 1910 map
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140 East circa 1910