1971
That summer Mayor Robert Hult announced he had taken a promotion with his employer and needed to resign his Mayoral position.
Jean Tiezzi was the winner of the 1971 Washingtonian Award.
Interstate 74 is completed from Danville to the Quad Cities, a 214 mile path. The stretch from Peoria to at least Deer Creek had opened by 1962.
Nine holes of the Highview Hills Country Club opened in 1971. The course would later become Quail Meadows.
A revolving door of basketball coaches at WCHS seems to slow down as Check Westendorf is hired to replace Chuck Buescher, who left the position after one season to become an assistant under Joe Stowell at Bradley University.
In May 1971 it was announced that Washington was joining the Heart of Illinois Conference to begin play during the 1972-73 school year in all sports except football, which would follow in 1973-74.
The Washington Park District was gifted 5.6 acres of land off North Lawndale by Glenn Weaver for a park, which we now know as Weaver Park.
Eleanor Hallinan was elected the first female alderman in the history of Washington.