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Villa Grove, IL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Villa Grove a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Villa Grove Home page. The Villa Grove Home page provides as much information as possible on Villa Grove. Knowing Villa Grove’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Villa Grove’s Home page, you will also find Villa Grove’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Villa Grove has a population of 2300. 51% of Villa Grove’s inhabitants are Male, and 49 are female. 49.3% of Villa Grove is married and 79.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $92,288, and the average rent is $700. Household median income in Villa Grove is $53,971, and the individual median income is $28,864. Villa Grove’s Ethnic is the following: White(97.7%), Hispanic(1.6%), Native(0.8%), Black(0.7%), Asian(0.5%), Multiple(0.2%).
Villa Grove's location at the confluence of Jordan Slough and the Embarras River has resulted in flooding during the city's history. In January 1950, Villa Grove was isolated by flooding, more than 1/3 of the city was underwater and the Red Cross reported 100 families were homeless. Another flood in April 1994 left over half of the city's 1,000 homes flooded and the city's water supply was tainted.
At one point, portions of main street were 6 feet underwater.After the severe flooding in 1994 and additional flooding in the following years, a program was implemented to purchase and demolish homes voluntarily from owners in the flood plain. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) used the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) to purchase 17 homes in two phases from 1995 to 2000.
IEMA noted that when another flood occurred in June 2008, the 17 properties purchased would have again been flooded had they not been purchased and demolished. Additional plans were also made to purchase more flood prone properties after the 2008 flood. After flooding in April 2013, FEMA again provided funding to purchase and demolish eight more homes and one public building in Villa Grove under HMGP.These improvements have minimized the amount of area impacted by flooding.
In 2021, a new bridge was built on Illinois Route 130 over the river. The new bridge is at a higher elevation and allows for better drainage. These improvements have resulted in significantly less flooding in the area in recent years.
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