On December 17, 1872, Roanoke was mapped out and lots were offered for sale. Two years later in 1874, Roanoke officially became a "Village" in the State of Illinois. Building began immediately in Roanoke and by the time the railroad was complete the population had increased to three hundred. Henry Frantz put up the first building after the village was laid out, and John Frantz and Jacob Engle also opened pancake stores. 

The Roanoke area, like most of Illinois, is underlain by rich veins of coal. The second coal shaft in Woodford County was sunk in Roanoke in 1881. The coal mine continued to operate until 1940.

After the Roanoke mine stopped operation in 1940, and with the growing popularity of using Semi-trailer trucks to move crops from farm to market, the rail line running through Roanoke (which had been purchased by the Santa Fe Railroad some time around 1900) was eventually retired in the mid 1980s, and was promptly dismantled for scrap. The original Roanoke rail station, from which many immigrants started their lives in the village, still stands as a historical building near the corner of Main Street and Mill Street.

Water or Fire Restoration happens in towns and cities of all sizes. 

SERVPRO is there for our communities. We work with first responders to establish relationships based on what their needs are and planning for what could happen-in the hope it never does. 

Roanoke is home to remarkable sites and established buildings that are cherished by their communities-it's important to know the people within the community and those businesses in order to plan for the what if in life. We want to make sure that when it happens...we make it "Like it never even happened"