Businesses        

  1.  Businesses
    1. 1967 Chamber of Commerce booklet. With many photos of most businesses and their employees.
    2. Early Fairbury automobile dealers.
    3. Bon Ton drug store and their Bon Ton Limits men's basketball team.
    4. Dave's Supermarket
    5. Fairbury's Underground or Basement Businesses
    6. Tastee-Freez restaurant later renamed to RD's on Route 24.
    7. The Mapel Brothers
      1. Their harness shop.
      2. The Mapel Brothers Horse
    8. Zimmerman's Hardware Store
    9. Fairbury Saloonkeepers (1993 College paper by Kathy Strickland)
    10. Impact of Glaciers including the 1955 automobile tour by the State Geological Society.
    11. Honegger's
    12. Bill's Dairy.
      1. History of his dairy business written by him before he died.
      2. Fairbury History Story about the dairy including Bill Piercy and partner Howard Davis.
    13. Claudons
      1. Family and all their businesses.
      2. Biggest business scandal in Fairbury's history [Claudon Bank failure]
      3. Claudon House at 209 E. Elm Street in Fairbury. Later owned by Nimrod Mapel.
      4. Virginia Claudon Countered Tokyo Rose radio broadcasts in World War II.
    14. David versus Goliath. The story of the McDonald's fast food company opening a restaurant in Fairbury, but we already had a restaurant named McDonald's.
    15. Fairbury Carriage Company. It failed to make the transition from selling horse-drawn buggies to automobiles.
    16. Bach Lumberyard
    17. Milne Greenhouse. The 2nd largest greenhouse in Fairbury after the Kring Greenhouse. Later the Kaisner Greenhouse.
    18. Record Printing Company
      1. Company Brochure with History.
      2. Future story about the company.