{"id":1315,"date":"2017-12-15T14:58:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T20:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2018-01-22T22:56:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T04:56:49","slug":"pontoon-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/pontoon-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Pontoon Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pontoon Beach was incorporated following an election held <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">December 8, 1962. Its name refers to the lakefront of Long Lake, which supposedly once had a sandy beach.((&#8220;<\/span>Origins and Incorporation of Pontoon Beach,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Six Miles of Local History<\/em>, accessed January 22, 2018.))<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In 1970, it had a population of 2,448 people.((<a href=\"https:\/\/census.gov\/library\/publications\/1971\/dec\/pc-v1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>1970 Census of Population Advance Report: Illinois<\/em><\/a> (Washington: Bureau of the Census, 1971), 16.))<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> As of the 2010 census, the village of Pontoon Beach has a population of 5,836.((<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/cen2010\/cph-1-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illinois: 2010, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, 2010 Census of Population and Housing<\/a> <\/em>(Washington: Bureau of the Census, 2012), 144.))<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/Communities\/Pontoon Beach.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-473 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Pontoon_Beach.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pontoon Beach in 2017<br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.madison.il.us\/departments\/information_technology\/geographic_spatial_data.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maps &amp; Plats GIS Division of the Madison County Chief County Assessment Office<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pontoon Beach was incorporated following an election held December 8, 1962. Its name refers to the lakefront of Long Lake, which supposedly once had a sandy beach.((&#8220;Origins and Incorporation of Pontoon Beach,&#8221;\u00a0Six Miles of Local History, accessed January 22, 2018.)) In 1970, it had a population of 2,448 people.((1970 Census of Population Advance Report: Illinois [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"community.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"coauthors":[56,54],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}