Danville
Danville is a small city of about 34,000 in Central Illinois about 5 miles west of the Illinois-Indiana border and about 140 miles south of Chicago. Danville is nestled in the heart of Vermilion River country, home to high quality museums, shops full of rare and unique finds, a unique history including several Abraham Lincoln historic sites, and an abundance of parks and wildlife.Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
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- Type: Town with 32,800 residents
- Description: city in and the county seat of Vermilion County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Danville, IL”, “Danville, Illinois”, and “Vermilion Court House”
- Postal codes: 61832 and 61834
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fischer Theatre and Danville Public Library.
Fischer Theatre
Theater building
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The Fischer Theatre was built in 1884 in Danville, Illinois, then known as the Grand Opera House. The grand opening was held on November 5, 1884. The lot on which it was built cost $6,000, and the building itself cost $28,000 including furnishings.
Danville Public Library
Library
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Danville Public Library is a library in Danville, Illinois, formed in 1883 by consolidating several existing collections. Originally it existed in rented space in buildings in downtown Danville.
Danville High School
School
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Danville High School is a public high school located in Danville, Illinois, United States. It is part of Danville District 118, which also includes two middle schools and eight elementary schools.
Danville
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Danville Township, Vermilion, Central Illinois, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.1252° or 40° 7′ 31″ northLongitude
-87.6305° or 87° 37′ 50″ westPopulation
32,800Elevation
600 feet (183 metres)IATA airport code
DNVUnited Nations Location Code
US DVIOpen location code
86GJ49G9+3ROpenStreetMap ID
node 153728689OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4889426Wikidata ID
Q577334
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Danville” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Danville, Illinois”
- Albanian: “Danville”
- Arabic: “دانفيل”
- Basque: “Danville”
- Belarusian: “Дэнвіл”
- Bengali: “ড্যানভিল”
- Catalan: “Danville”
- Cebuano: “Danville”
- Chechen: “Данвиль”
- Chinese: “Danville”
- Chinese: “丹維爾”
- Chinese: “丹维尔”
- Croatian: “Danville”
- Czech: “Danville”
- Dagbani: “Danville”
- Danish: “Danville”
- Dutch: “Danville”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دانفيل”
- French: “Danville”
- German: “Danville”
- Gilaki: “دنویل (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “دنویل”
- Haitian: “Danville, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Danville”
- Hebrew: “דנוויל”
- Hungarian: “Danville”
- Ido: “Danville, Illinois”
- Ido: “Danville”
- Irish: “Danville”
- Italian: “Danville”
- Japanese: “ダンヴィル (イリノイ州)”
- Japanese: “ダンヴィル”
- Japanese: “ダンビル (イリノイ州)”
- Japanese: “ダンビル”
- Korean: “댄빌”
- Ladin: “Danville”
- Mazanderani: “دنویل (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “دنویل”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Danville”
- Newari: “ड्यानभिल (इलियोनोई)”
- Newari: “ड्यानभिल, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “ड्यानभिल, इलियोनोई”
- Newari: “ड्यानभिल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Danville”
- Norwegian: “Danville”
- Persian: “دنویل، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “دنویل”
- Polish: “Danville”
- Portuguese: “Danville”
- Russian: “Данвилл”
- Serbian: “Данвил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Danville, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Danville”
- Silesian: “Danville”
- Slovak: “Danville”
- Slovenian: “Danville”
- South Azerbaijani: “دنویل، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Danville (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Danville”
- Swedish: “Danville, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Danville”
- Talysh: “Danvill(İllinoys)”
- Talysh: “Danvill”
- Tatar: “Данвиль”
- Turkish: “Danville, Illinois”
- Turkish: “Danville”
- Ukrainian: “Данвіль”
- Urdu: “ڈنویل، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “ڈنویل”
- Uzbek: “Danville”
- Uzbek: “Данвилле”
- Vietnamese: “Danville, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Danville”
- Volapük: “Danville”
- Waray (Philippines): “Danville, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Danville”
- Welsh: “Danville, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Danville”
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