Giblin was an unincorporated rural community in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. Giblin is east of Monticello.
Though no longer extant, the community once had a general store with a post office, house, and a township hall. It only lasted for at most 40 years.Illinois History (1984), p. 131 ("There are no old saloons or hotels--there never were. The town was limited to a general store with a post office, a house, and a township call. The community I am referring to is Giblin. The lifeblood of Giblin was the general store which was operated by Ernest Steffens, an immigrant ... Henry H. Neal, who owned the land on which the post office was to be built, proposed the site ... As a town Giblin only existed for, at the most, forty years. The township hall remained.") The post office was opened in 1892,(11 May 1892). Note, The News-Gazette and closed in 1903 with the advent of rural mail delivery.(24 February 1903). Great Sorrow in Giblin, Champaign Daily News(25 November 1895). Colfax, Champaign Daily News ("The new store at Giblin is completed.")
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