Alvin, Illinois

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Alvin

Partly Sunny
Temperature: 21.9 °F

Humidity: 63 %
Wind Speed: 11 mph W
Pressure: 30.39 "

Dew Point: 11 °F
Gusts: 21 mph W
Rain Today: 0.00 "

• Seven hurt in Sunday wreck
  

  Two people remain hospitalized following a severe accident during the weekend. Seven people were transported by either ambulance or Lifeline from the scene of the crash early Sunday morning just east of ...

• Rossville approves changes on roof work
  

  The village board approved two additional changeorders for the roofing work on the village-owned buildings downtown Monday night.

• Manpower in short supply
  

  Imagine a call to your local fire department or ambulance service and it was 30 or 40 minutes before anyone arrived to help you.

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• Rossville seeks comments on buildings
  

  The Rossville Village Board wants to hear from residents about plans for the village-owned downtown buildings.

• Rossville seeks comments on buildings
  

  The Rossville Village Board wants to hear from residents about plans for the village-owned downtown buildings.

• Potter wins Vermilion queen contest
  

  Lauren Potter, a sophomore at Western Illinois University, will reign as the 2008 Vermilion County Fair queen.

• 9 seek Vermilion fair queen title
  

  Nine candidates are seeking this year's Vermilion County Fair queen title. The pageant will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the grandstand.

• Owners to show off antique beauties
  

  "I'm trying to keep the past alive, and remember the days when I was a teen"

  Owners of antique vehicles agree: Don't hide your classics in a garage. "You have to get out and drive them, and talk to people," Mike Klepp of Oakwood said. via The Commercial-News, Danville, IL

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City Description

Alvin is a village in South Ross Township, Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. It is part of the 'Danville, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 316 at the 2000 census. A settlement was founded in 1872 about a mile south of present-day Alvin, along the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad railroad, and was called Gilbert in honor of the founder, Alvan Gilbert. In 1875, the new Havana, Rantoul and Eastern Railroad (which became the Illinois Central Railroad) crossed the C&EI north of Gilbert, and the town of Alvan was founded at the intersection. Tradition says that the town's name became Alvin (with an "i" instead of an "a") because the post office mis-spelled it and refused to correct the error. In 1942 a tornado struck Alvin and caused much destruction, killing six people. A marker in the town commemorates the tragic event and reads as follows: Alvin is located on County Road 3 about 2 miles north of Bismarck, Illinois. The coordinates are 40°18′34″N 87°36′25″W / 40.30944, -87.60694 (40.309494, -87.606887). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km²), all of it land. As of the census of

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• United States
• Illinois
• Vermilion County

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