| May 2022 | |
| 07 Saturday | The Whites of Spring 20225:00pm - 8:30pm CST Downtown Monticello, Monticello, IL, 61856 A Refreshing Way to Enjoy Historic Downtown Monticello The Whites of Spring celebrates the arrival of Spring to downtown Monticello. Sample white wines as you walk, sip and shop participating merchants and restaurants. Newly added will be a few appetizer locations! This event is on Saturday, May 7 from 5-8:30 pm around historic, downtown Monticello. Wine sampling is reserved for ticketed guests, but all are invited to enjoy extended shopping hours, and visiting pop-up makers. Once again, the map and wine glass pickup location will be in Wabash Depot (our tourism lobby and office location). &...more |
| November 2022 | |
| 25 Friday | Reds of Christmas 2022 - Sold Out!5:00pm - 8:30pm CST Historic Courthouse Square in Downtown Monticello, Monticello, IL, 61856  Jingle and mingle in Monticello this holiday season! There’s no better way to kick things off than with Reds of Christmas, a wine walk and shop event in our historic downtown. Ticketed guests check-in and receive a commemorative tasting glass to pop in and out from spot to spot for red wine sampling and shopping.
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It's Historic Preservation Week! We want to feature local building owners who have done great things for their buildings over the past year!
Congratulations to Willow Tree Missions for their work at 100 E. Washington Monticello Main Street! They removed a previous business sign and installed their own giving a taste of things to come with this facade earning them the 2024 Historic Preservation Award Recipient for Façade Improvement- Signage!!
The City of Monticello, Historic Preservation Commission and Monticello Main Street are excited to celebrate the work done to preserve and enhance or historic structures!
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As we celebrate Historic Preservation Week, we highlight local building owners who have shown exceptional care for their historic buildings this year!
Congratulations to X-treme Entertainment LLC for their work at 109 N. Charter Street! For all that work they are receiving the 2024 Historic Preservation Award Recipient for Façade Renovation, Interior Renovation, and Landscape/Site
If you haven't already noticed, this property has had a facelift! They replaced windows, repaired masonry, removed overgrown vegetation, then replaced it with new landscaping!
City of Monticello, Historic Preservation Commission, and Monticello Main Street are excited to celebrate the work done to preserve and enhance our historic structures!!
#HistoricPreservationWeek #makeitmonticello #ilmainstreet #mainstreet
We were so lucky to go through Main Street America’s Transformation Strategy process over the last few weeks!! It started with providing them with much of the work that has already been done in our community. Next, many of you helped us with a survey. Last week we learned about the survey results, reviewed information from various data sets in relation to our downtown, listened to several stakeholder’s thoughts and ideas, and learned about some potential strategies we are considering for implementation over the next few years. Our board will soon go over these strategies in more depth with the intent to make a decision next month!
We want to thank everyone that took time to complete our survey, the information was priceless! We were lucky to have community members, business owners, building owners and City of Monticello, representatives that took time out of their day to discuss ways to elevate our downtown. Last, but not at all least, we must thank our awesome facilitators from Main Street America and Illinois Main Street!
Stay tuned!!
In Celebration of Historic Preservation Week we are recognizing some of our local building owners that have done exceptional work!
Congratulations to Jackson Property Development! They have received a 2024 Historic Preservation Award for Property Restoration and Interior Renovation at 200-202 W. Washington Street!!
City of Monticello, Historic Preservation Commission, and Monticello Main Street are thrilled to celebrate the excellent work done to preserve our historic buildings!!
#HistoricPreservationWeek #makeitmonticello
#ilmainstreet #mainstreet