Ticona is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Eden Township, LaSalle County,

Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash River, Wabash and Ohio River, Ohio rivers to its ...

, United States. Ticona is located at the junction of East 550th Road and North 2101st Road, approximately northeast of Tonica. Ticona shares a ZIP code with Tonica. Ticona was a stop on the Burlington Railroad's Illinois Valley and Northern line between LaSalle and

Streator Streator is a city in LaSalle and Livingston counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The city is situated on the Vermilion River approximately southwest of Chicago in the prairie and farm land of north-central Illinois. As of the 2020 cens ...

. The railroad constructed a depot, stock yards, water tank, and small grain elevator. The Columbia Hotel of Streator built a small dancing pavilion and beer garden called Columbia Park in the woods near the depot. During a large party, a violent storm hit with lightning killing a man and destroying the park. Also noted for an amateur hypnotist accidentally sending a family to sleep in 1902.

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Unincorporated communities in Illinois Unincorporated communities in LaSalle County, Illinois Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area {{LaSalleCountyIL-geo-stub