Fairbury Cleanup and Restoration

Fairbury is located on U.S. Route 24 11 miles east of Chenoa and six miles west of Forrest. It was founded in 1857. The town has a large population of members of the Apostolic Christian faith, who first settled in the area in 1864. Fairbury was laid out on November 10, 1857 by Caleb L. Patton and Octave Chanute.  Like most Illinois towns of the 1850s, the original town of Fairbury was centered on a depot ground. Octave Chanute was a civil engineer employed by the new Peoria and Oquawka Railroad, which is now the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad. Caleb L. Patton was an early settler on the land where the town was built. Chanute, a French native, was later famed for publishing Progress in Flying Machines, which helped pioneer aviation (the Wright brothers even mentioned Chanute as a mentor to them). Chanute built the railroad that made Fairbury possible, but did so against the will of Patton, Fairbury's first citizen.

This is also the very town where a resident and restaurant owner named Ronald McDonald was in a 26-year legal battle with McDonald's over the name of his restaurant. He ultimately prevailed and continued using his name on his restaurant despite objections by the franchise. 

Fairbury is a small town with a big history and a rich sense of community.

This is what SERVPRO does. We work with our communities to keep things moving, “Like it never even happened”.  SERVPRO knows that storms are strong in central Illinois and lead to water damage at all levels. It doesn’t matter if you are in a small town-we have your back. 

Working with our rural Volunteer Fire Departments is important to us as well. This is helpful for the training and the equipment for those departments, but also so they know who to call when one of their own is affected by fire. Knowing who to call for fire restoration helps to take a lot of pressure off of the firefighters caring for their communities. 

SERVPRO has your back!