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Your Guide To:
Decatur Illinois
Your Guide to Hotels, Restaurants, Tickets, Tours and More!
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About Decatur
Home of the Central Illinois Jazz Festival and the Decatur-Macon County Fair, Decatur is situated on the banks of the Sangamon River, also known as Lake Decatur. With an average winter temperature of 31° and a summer average of 74°, the Central Illinois town enjoys relatively mild weather throughout the year. Visitors... [read more]
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48°/36° |
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Decatur Factoid
One of Decatur's most historically prominent citizens, Hieronymus Mueller relocated his young family to Decatur in 1857. Soon afterwards, his tinkering led him to patent the Mueller Water Tapper, the first of many inventions. With the help of his sons, Mueller patented the spark plug, water cooler radiator and variable speed transmission, and in 1895, their Mueller-Benz won the first-ever US car race. After the patriarch's death, the Mueller Company went on to develop an armor-piercing explosive shell used in WWII.
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