After our four-column letter on the Texas law halting abortions, two Urbana Daily Citizen items call for responses. Chris Creamer (Sep. 9) wrote that my le
Looking Back – The Citizens National Bank
Submitted photos
Submitted photos
This is a looking back at the Citizens National Bank located at 1 Monument Square, Urbana. The first photo is a postcard photo of the bank building circa 1910. The second photo (#1719) is a circa 1940 postcard photo of the building. At the time of the second photo Miller Hardware was just north of the bank building. Note that during the time between the photos the cupola had been removed and the façade of the building, particularly on the first floor, had been altered.
In 1860, James B. Armstrong, a former county treasurer, founded the Armstrong Bank in this building. In 1864, the bank was chartered as a national bank becoming the Citizens National Bank. The first stockholders were all local people. The five original directors were: Abner Whitely, James B. Armstrong, Daniel Blose, Edward Jennings and William Wiley. The early success of the bank resulted from good management and conservative banking m
The Urbana Daily Citizen is compiling a list of mid-summer and Independence Day events.Information about free concerts open to the public, fireworks displa
Macy wins UHS Distinguished Alumni Award
Macy
This year’s recipient of the Urbana High School Distinguished Alumni Award is Beth Macy, a 1982 graduate of UHS.
Macy is also the first woman to receive the Urbana High School Distinguished Alumni Award.
After graduating from high school, she received her bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University in journalism and did an internship at the
Urbana Daily Citizen.
She received her master’s degree from Hollis University, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 2010 and was short-listed for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in non-fiction.
Macy was a reporter for the