DANVILLE, a city of eastern Illinois, U.S.A., 124m. S. of Chicago, on the bluffs of the Vermilion river; the county seat of Vermilion county. It is served by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, the Illinois Traction (electric), the New York Central and the Wabash railways. The population was 33,776 in 192o (87% na, tive white) and was 36,765 in 193o by the Federal census of that year. It is the commercial centre of a rich farming and coal mining region, and has substantial manufacturing industries, in cluding railroad locomotive and repair shops, flour and lumber mills, large brick plants, glass works and a zinc smelter. The out put of the factories within the city in 1927 was valued at $14, 942,o82. Bank clearings in 1926 were $168,044,977- The assessed valuation of property in 1927 was $15,535,681. There are large dairy and stock farms round about. The mines of the county produced over 3,000,000 tons of coal in 1926. At the western boundary of the city is Lake Vermilion, a reservoir 4m. long, with a capacity of 2,5oo,000,000gal. completed in 1925. A branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was estab lished here in 1898. Danville was the site of an Indian village, Piankeshaw, the centre of many trails. In 1824 Dan Beckwith, for whom the city was named, built his trading cabin here, and in 1826 the settlement became the county seat. It was incor porated as a city in 1869. A commission form of government was adopted in 1927, and a city plan (prepared in 192o) is in process of development. Danville was the home of Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, speaker of the House of Representatives from 1003 to igri