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Decatur is a city in Macon county, . There are many examples of Frank Lloyd Wright's influence on the Prairie Style Architecture in Decatur.
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  • Type: City with 77,000 residents
  • Description: city in Macon County, Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Decatur, IL” and “Decatur, Illinois”
  • Postal codes: 62521-62526

Places of Interest

Highlights include Transfer House and Macon County Courthouse.

Historic building
Photo: Ander107, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a historic building located in Central Park in Decatur, . Built in 1896, the building originally served as a transfer point for Decatur's electric streetcar system.

Courthouse
The is a government building in Decatur, the county seat of , , . Completed in 1940, it is the fourth courthouse in the county's history.

Hospital
Photo: Dmhcares, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, is a Decatur, Illinois affiliate of Memorial Medical Center and is a 300-bed, not-for-profit, community hospital founded in 1916.

Decatur

Latitude
39.8454° or 39° 50′ 44″ north
Longitude
-88.9524° or 88° 57′ 9″ west
Population
77,000
Elevation
673 feet (205 metres)
IATA airport code
DEC
United Nations Location Code
US DEC
Open location code
86FHR2WX+52
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153726164
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4236895
Wiki­data ID
Q506325
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Decatur” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Decatur, Illinois”
  • Albanian: “Decatur”
  • Arabic: “ديكادور”
  • Asturian: “Decatur”
  • Basque: “Decatur”
  • Bengali: “ডিকাটুর”
  • Bengali: “ডেকেটার”
  • Bulgarian: “Дикейтър”
  • Catalan: “Decatur”
  • Cebuano: “Decatur (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Illinois)”
  • Cebuano: “Decatur”
  • Chechen: “Декейтер”
  • Chinese: “Decatur”
  • Chinese: “迪凯特”
  • Chinese: “迪凱特”
  • Cornish: “Decatur, Illinois”
  • Cornish: “Decatur”
  • Croatian: “Decatur”
  • Czech: “Decatur”
  • Danish: “Decatur”
  • Dutch: “Decatur”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديكادور”
  • Esperanto: “Decatur”
  • Esperanto: “Dekaturo”
  • Finnish: “Decatur”
  • French: “Decatur”
  • German: “Decatur”
  • Gilaki: “دکیتر”
  • Haitian: “Decatur, Ilinwa”
  • Haitian: “Decatur”
  • Hausa: “Decatur+”
  • Hebrew: “דקטור”
  • Hungarian: “Decatur”
  • Ido: “Decatur, Illinois”
  • Ido: “Decatur”
  • Irish: “Decatur”
  • Italian: “Decatur”
  • Japanese: “ディケーター”
  • Japanese: “ディケイター”
  • Korean: “디케이터”
  • Ladin: “Decatur”
  • Marathi: “डिकॅटर”
  • Marathi: “डिकॅटुर”
  • Mazanderani: “دکیتر (ایلینوی)”
  • Mazanderani: “دکیتر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Decatur”
  • Newari: “डेकाटर”
  • Newari: “दिकेतर, इलिनोइ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Decatur”
  • Norwegian: “Decatur”
  • Persian: “دکیتر”
  • Persian: “دیکیتور، ایلینوی”
  • Polish: “Decatur”
  • Portuguese: “Decatur”
  • Russian: “Декейтер”
  • Serbian: “Декејтур”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Decatur, Illinois”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Decatur”
  • Silesian: “Decatur”
  • Slovak: “Decatur”
  • Slovenian: “Decatur”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دیکیتور، ایلینوی”
  • Spanish: “Decatur (Illinois)”
  • Spanish: “Decatur”
  • Swedish: “Decatur, Illinois”
  • Swedish: “Decatur”
  • Talysh: “Dekejter”
  • Tatar: “Декейтер (Иллинойс)”
  • Tatar: “Декейтер”
  • Thai: “Decatur”
  • Thai: “ดิเคเทอร์”
  • Turkish: “Decatur, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “Decatur”
  • Ukrainian: “Декейтер”
  • Urdu: “ڈیکاٹر، الینوائے”
  • Urdu: “ڈیکاٹر”
  • Uzbek: “Decatur”
  • Vietnamese: “Decatur, Illinois”
  • Vietnamese: “Decatur”
  • Volapük: “Decatur”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Decatur, Illinois”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Decatur”
  • Welsh: “Decatur, Illinois”
  • Welsh: “Decatur”

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