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Danville, Illinois
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| name                        = City of Danville, Illinois
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Danville's coordinates are {{coord|40|8|21|N|87|37|17|W|city}} (40.139273, -87.621507){{GR|1}}.

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of 17.1&nbsp;
[[square mile]]s (44.3&nbsp;[[km²]]), of which, 17.0&nbsp;square miles (44.0&nbsp;km²) of it is land and 0.1&nbsp;square miles (0.3&nbsp;km²) of it (0.58%) is water.

==History==
[[Image:Danville Illinois Main Street postcard.png|thumb|left|250px|East Main Street circa 1910]] Danville was founded in 1827 on sixty acres of land donated by Guy W. Smith and twenty donated by Dan W. Beckwith.<ref>{{cite book
  | last = Jones
  | first = Lottie E.
  | title = History of Vermilion County, Illinois (volume 1)
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