Paradise, Illinois

Lake Paradise is a reservoir on the Little Wabash River in Coles County, Illinois, United States. The reservoir covers an area of 174 acres (0.70 km2). The community of Paradise is located near the lake's southern shore. The Little Wabash River was dammed to create the lake in 1929.

Paradise Township is one of twelve townships in Coles County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 959 and it contained 599 housing units.

Wabash Point is an unincorporated community in Coles County, Illinois, United States. Wabash Point is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southwest of Mattoon.

Magnet is an unincorporated community in Coles County, Illinois, United States. Magnet is located along a railroad line south-southwest of Mattoon.

WLKL (89.9 FM, The Max Alternative) is a radio station broadcasting an alternative music format. Licensed to Mattoon, Illinois, United States, the station serves the Mattoon/Neoga area. The station is currently owned by Lake Land College through its licensee Community College District #517.

Lake Land College is a public community college in Mattoon, Illinois. It was founded in 1966. As of the Fall 2022 semester Lake Land serves 3,742 students, mainly from the east-central Illinois region. The 308 acres (1.25 km2) campus has seven major buildings plus eight supportive buildings, two campus ponds, and a 160 acres (0.65 km2) agriculture land laboratory.

Mattoon Township is one of twelve townships in Coles County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 14,668 and it contained 7,381 housing units.

Gays is a village in Moultrie County, Illinois, United States. The population was 218 at the 2020 census, down from 281 in 2010.

Mattoon High School is located in Coles County, Mattoon, Illinois, United States. The school mascot is the Green Wave, which represents the waves of corn in the fields surrounding the community of Mattoon.

Lipsey is an unincorporated community in Coles County, Illinois, United States. Lipsey is located along Illinois Route 121 near the western border of Mattoon.

The Richard Roytek House is a historic house located at 3420 Richmond Avenue in Mattoon, Illinois. Local businessman Richard Roytek built the house for his family in 1949–50. The house has a ranch style design with Prairie School details; Roytek chose this design after visiting Harlingen, Texas in 1948. The single-story house has the characteristic low profile and gently sloping roof of the ranch style. In addition, the house has large picture windows on its front facade and an attached garage, both common features of ranch-style houses. The house's Prairie School features include its use of wood and stone, its horizontal limestone exterior, its overhanging eaves, and its wide chimney. The house is one of roughly twelve ranch-style houses in Mattoon which predate the city's ranch-style subdivisions developed in the mid-1950s.The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 22, 2011.

The Fifteenth Street and Oklahoma Avenue Brick Street is a 4.3-mile (6.9 km) section of brick pavement on Fifteenth Street and Oklahoma Avenue in Mattoon, Illinois. The section of pavement covers eight blocks of Fifteenth Street and one block of Oklahoma Avenue at the south end of the Fifteenth Street section. The H. W. Clark Company paved the streets in 1924. The company first laid a concrete substructure and concrete curbs. An intermediate layer of sand and tar was laid on top of the concrete, and the bricks were placed on top of this layer. The segment of brick street accounts for nearly all of Mattoon's remaining brick streets, as less than 20% of its original 22.1-mile (35.6 km) brick street system has not been paved over with asphalt.The street was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 1999.