WAND is a television station licensed to Decatur, Illinois, United States, serving the Central Illinois region as an affiliate of NBC. Owned by Block Communications, the station maintains studios on South Side Drive in Decatur, and its transmitter is located along I-72, between Oreana and Argenta.
At right is the 400.5-meter (1,314.0 ft) WAND tower near Argenta, Illinois.
Decatur is the largest city in and the county seat of Macon County, Illinois, United States. The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Central Illinois. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 70,522. It is the seventeenth-most populous city in Illinois. Decatur has an economy based on industrial and agricultural commodity processing and production. The city is home to Millikin University and Richland Community College.
Downtown Decatur
Statue of Abraham Lincoln in downtown Decatur on the site of his first political speech.
President William Howard Taft speaking in Decatur, 1911
Mueller Co. c. 1904