Driving Around Downtown Decatur, IL in 4k Video
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Filmed on Sunday, March 6, 2023, I drive around the downtown area of the city of Decatur, Illinois to see what's going on. On the way out of town I drive past the ADM processing plant. I really wish you could SMELL a video.
Decatur is the largest city and the county seat of Macon County in the U.S. state of Illinois, with a population of 70,522 as of the 2020 Census. The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Central Illinois. Decatur is the seventeenth-most populous city in Illinois.
The city is home of private Millikin University and public Richland Community College. Decatur has an economy based on industrial and agricultural commodity processing and production, including the North American headquarters of agricultural conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland, international agribusiness Tate & Lyle's largest corn-processing plant, and the designing and manufacturing facilities for Caterpillar Inc.'s wheel-tractor scrapers, compactors, large wheel loaders, mining class motor grader, off-highway trucks, and large mining trucks.
The city is named after War of 1812 naval hero Stephen Decatur.
Decatur is an affiliate of the U.S. Main Street program, in conjunction with the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The Potawatomi Trail of Death passed through here in 1838.
Decatur was the first home in Illinois of Abraham Lincoln, who settled just west of Decatur with his family in 1830. At the age of 21, Lincoln gave his first political speech in Decatur about the importance of Sangamon River navigation that caught the attention of Illinois political leaders. As a lawyer on the 8th Judicial Circuit, Lincoln made frequent stops in Decatur. The original courthouse is now on the grounds of the Macon County Historical Museum on North Fork Road. John Hanks, first cousin of Abraham Lincoln, lived in Decatur.
Decatur was the original home of the Chicago Bears, from 1919 to 1920. The football team was then known as the Decatur Staleys and played at Staley Field, both named after the local food-products manufacturer.
Caterpillar Inc. has one of its largest manufacturing plants in the U.S. in Decatur. This plant produces Caterpillar's off highway trucks, wheel-tractor scrapers, compactors, large wheel loaders, mining-class motorgraders, and their ultra-class mining trucks (including the Caterpillar 797). Archer Daniels Midland processes corn and soybeans, Mueller produces water distribution products and Tate & Lyle processes corn in Decatur.
Decatur has been ranked third in the nation as an Emerging Logistics and Distribution Center by Business Facilities: The Location Advisor, and was named a Top 25 Trade City by Global Trade. In 2013 the Economic Development Corporation of Decatur & Macon County established the Midwest Inland Port, a multi-modal transportation hub with market proximity to 95 million customers in a 500-mile radius. The port includes the Archer Daniels Midland intermodal container ramp, the two class I railroads that service the ramp and the city (the Canadian National Railway, and the Norfolk Southern Railway), five major roadways and the Decatur Airport. The Midwest Inland Port also has a foreign trade zone and customs clearing, and the area is both an enterprise zone and tax increment financing district.
In August 2019, Mueller Company announced plans to construct a "state-of-the-art" brass foundry in Decatur on a 30 acre site in the 2700 block of North Jasper Street. The facility is expected to employ 250 personnel.
In November 2020, ADM and InnovaFeed announced plans to construct the world's largest insect protein facility targeted to begin in 2021. The facility will be owned and operated by InnovaFeed and will co-locate with ADM's Decatur corn processing complex. This new project represents innovative, sustainable production to meet growing demand for insect protein in animal feed, a market that has potential to reach 1 million tons in 2027.
Millikin University, a four-year institution of higher education, has a 75-acre campus founded by James Millikin and was originally affiliated with the Presbyterian Church.
Decatur has been mentioned in several movies, including the 1984 movie Bachelor Party, the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and the 2008 movie Leatherheads. #driving #travel #drivingtour
I was born and raised in Decatur. Haven't been back since 1985. Grew up across from the ADM plant on Faries Parkway in a trailer court that is no longer there. It was a poor but decent neighborhood back in the 60's and 70's. Took guitar lessons at a shop called Axe in Hand. The former building can be seen in the thumbnail across from Del's Popcorn shop. Also worked at the movie theatres and drive inns.
I lived at Garfield Estates Trailer Park as well in the mid 90s and Decatur was not bad then. Its changed not for the better. Sadly this city is dying, not thriving and worn down....... People are leaving and its not safe to live here.
I know all about the smell. I always held my breath when crossing the bridge that was near the end of your video. Stunk like hell
I had my windows open going over this bridge. HUGE MISTAKE. It was like I snorted a spicy hot pepper
Yes, I remember that scent too. I can smell it now and remember As a kid crossing that bridge wishing we could pass by those factory’s quicker! I learned about soybeans quickly from Decatur.
My great great grandparents lived there. I hope to visit someday and check out my roots. I'm glad I found this video. Thanks!
You're welcome.
I’ve been in Decatur since 2002. I’m black. The crime has gotten worse when it comes to shootings, specifically East, South, and West. About 30 people are arrested daily. The North is Forsyth and the surrounding areas. The only things we have here is ADM and CAT. The cops power trip, people are flocking the city, and I definitely wouldn’t recommend anyone come here to permanently live.
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Hello may I please ask you some questions such as what's the name of some major grocery stores out there, does this place have movie theaters more than one library Chicago has CTA bus and train stations transportation services. Does Decatur have Uber and Lyft and what restaurants are out there.
@@melonylymon3214we have Walmart, Kroger, and Aldi’s. There’s a bus transportation system. We have one city library located downtown. There is Uber and Lyft although I rarely know anyone to use it commonly. There’s one movie theater in Forsyth and one downtown.
My mom is one of the vice presidents of adm
I was born in that city. Thanks for the video.
Decatur is stuck in 1987...Mall..Dead. Fun Fair,,,Gone...Celebration..gone. I come to see my parents but after 36 hours...Im ready to go.
I lived there in the 70s but it certainly looks different hardly anyone outside except driving very sad
i grew up here and leaving was one of the best decisions i ever made, this place is a dead end city... It's very hard to get out of the struggle when living there.
Born in late 50's. Macon co. Hospital . Lived on water street went to olgavee grade school to 3rd grade thin moved south . I had 6 aunts 3 uncles from Decatur.
I’ve met a family from Decatur in August 1986 while on vacation in Gulf Shores, Alabama. I hung out with the son and daughter, and also a couple of friends they each invited the entire week we were there. Hello Krista, Mike, Carmen, and Tom if y’all read this! Miss you guys.
There’s also a RUclipsr that is from here.
I love it…I hope one of them watches this video and finds you. Would be awesome!
@@exploreusacities Haha, yes! That would be awesome to talk to them again! At least I could send them some pictures I took back then by email. I was 18 going on 19 and they were near the same age. At least I got to see what the city looks like. Thanks for filming it.
Also, I’m not sure if you’re from the area or not, I remember Mike had a high school football jersey and the mascot was the Trojans. Not sure which school he attended.
@JohnnyUtah15 that's Maroa-Forsyth Trojans. What's the last names? And also who's the youtuber that lives here?
@@travelteam89Jeremiah Phillips
@RealJayGladney lol that's all? I'm sure there's more that just him. I know who that is.
I grew up in Decatur, had kids here and moved away in 1999... Came back for about a year around 2004, Decatur used to be a Union Town that got hit hard by the Labor Works of the mid 90's... I worked at Staley's for almost 20 years and Tate & Lyle did a Lock Out that Broke their Union... (Cat and Firestone was targeted at about the same time... The Town went down from there with low paying jobs taking over...
Decatur had a vibrant giving community with many active people in it, I was Hit by a Tornado as a volunteer Storm Spotter and actually set off the Warning Sirens for the 2nd of two consecutive Tornado's in 1996... It crushed my pelvis and broke both of my hips and I moved my family out to California after that...
After moving back, it just wasn't the same place and it had turned on harder times... But, the world too wasn't the same place I grew up in either!!! It's not as good a place for Families and the close Friendships neighborhoods once were conducive towards... There is a lot more pitfalls and poverty to Life!!! I hope Decatur is better now... Blessing's on you guys!!! ;-) Lonnie McVaigh SDHS Class of 73' (Last year for the Ole' Building I think) Thank You for the memories!!!
I remember that lock out. My dad worked at Staley’s for around 25 years. He passed in 2008. His name was Gordon Greene, don’t know if you would know him.
@@jgwentworth8329 I'm almost 70 now, I am sure I met your Dad the name rings a bell... I worked Plant Clean up for a few years and was all over that Plant... Seemed like a great guy, always joking around!!!
That smell is from Tate and Lyle manufacturing company that makes products from soybeans. Not so bad a city and no homeless people so far, thank God.👍
It's from ADM, not Tate & Lyle
Beautiful Original Town with so much room for growth. A slight adjustment in property tax would be nice, but then there would have to be cut backs on the outrages number of casinos. 😂The soybean smell, smells like Cheeze Itz after awhile. If you don’t go looking for trouble you won’t find it. I’m from Dallas Tx and can appreciate the calmness and steady pace of this town. Hopefully more inspiring entrepreneurs will come to live here and help build the city back up to its full potential🤞🏾
Good to know that after a while the Soybeans start to smell like Cheese itz...hahahaha
Decatur, Il. Hurricane ready since 1984!
There’s no one out walking because it cold or maybe Saturday or Sunday but even now the bus run on weekends and this is only the down town area everything is closed
Great place to introduce fentanyl too
There's no one out walking around because it's cold out. There's no leaves on the trees.
I went there in July 2010 to play in the pro tennis tournament Being from the South it was strange to see the Walmart run down not even a Supercenter and a big union strike downtown. Walmart is my Alabama towns biggest employee and the union is dead here. No union jobs in the whole town except for the educators and a few electricians and welders. The people were real nice. One end of town, the Western side had a couple of parks and schools just real nice. The other end smelled bad. That's where all the plants were but when you drive through there, Lake Decatur was pretty. Their was a lot of jet skiers and some of fishing 🎣 tournament was going. It is stucka not in the past. But the Decatur Conference Center was real nice and up to date where I played was real good for us tennis players. They treated us like kings. They lost their sponsor for the tournament in 2023. But Sufjan Stevens wrote a song about this town.
What camera are you using??
I use the latest and greatest GoPro cameras for everything I do
Im planning to move there. Is this a safe place to live?
yikes!
Depends on where you live and the company you keep.
It's a shithole, stay away
Move here for what lol
@@travelteam89 to start a new life
Wow this is your most popular video congratulations
I wouldn't have expected it. It's probably all people being recruited by ADM and they want to see the town they're moving to.
@@exploreusacities Yeah I've been to Decatur and it's kinda scummy in some parts of the city
@Allertor yeah we use to be a booming town!
@@exploreusacitiescat bring alot of ppl too
Where are the people? Another city / town and no one around. Seen this repeated several times in other vlogs. What's wrong with you folks?
Maybe they were never there? Maybe Decatur is like the city in "The Truman Show"?
@@exploreusacities are there no cafe's or eateries in town that are open on a weekend? What I have taken away from viewing countless videos from other vloggers is that really, social life doesn't exist any more in the US. Never is there a person outside of their home either chatting to neighbours, mowing the lawn or washing a car. So bizarre it's scary. Town centres dead, residential areas dead. Seems a trip to the US is really a waste of time as all that we would see on our planned road trip is ghost towns. Think we will stay at home and travel my country where there is life.
Road tripping the US is certainly not a waste of time, however you would need to select better cities to visit than Decatur.
@@harrygoldun5779 These are mostly dead villages/towns with very low populations(usually mostly elderly since most younger generations moved away), that have been in a steady decline since the 1960-80s. There are a ton of fun places with a lot to do and people everywhere in the US, just don't expect to find that in a rural town in the middle nowhere. Source: Born and raised in village of 1-2k people nearby, now live in one of the top 5 highest population metros. Very little careers in rural America, unless you want to slave away at a factory, work a high risk high reward trade, go into medical or born with a silver spoon, life will be shit in places like this. The US is huge, which is something you're probably forgetting too.
This had to have been in the morning. Around 3 PM and later there’s a shit ton of traffic. Especially on the roads he is on, Water and Main and Eldorado
Decatur has a very bad smell if you have never been to decatur do not go there very bad place to live or visit
You don't like the stench of processed corn?
I was born and raised in Decatur. Haven't been back since 1985. Grew up across from the ADM plant on Faries Parkway in a trailer court that is no longer there. It was a poor but decent neighborhood back in the 60's and 70's. Took guitar lessons at a shop called Axe in Hand. The former building can be seen in the thumbnail across from Del's Popcorn shop. Also worked at the movie theatres and drive inns.