Counties
McDonough County
District: 4
County Engineer: Tom Hickman
Appointment Date: 8/29/2005
Address: 204 S. Western Ave.
Macomb, IL 61455
Telephone: (309) 833-4196
Fax: (309) 837-1292
Email: tom@mcdonoughhighways.net


Engineer Bio:
The 2011 IACE Zone I Engineer is Tom Hickman. Tom is a 1976 graduate of the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Business and Management. He worked as an architectural draftsman in Silver Spring, MD from 1978 to 1982. In 1990 he received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla. He worked for Poepping, Stone & Bach, consulting engineers in Quincy from 1990 to 1997. He then went to work for the Logan County Highway Department in 1997 as Assistant County Engineer and then was appointed County Engineer in 1999. In 2005 he became the County Engineer for McDonough & Henderson Counties. Tom lives in Lincoln with his wife Sharon. They have two adult children. He enjoys fishing, playing tennis and shooting pool.


County Background:
Established on January 25, 1826, McDonough County is named after Thomas McDonough, a Commodore of the United States Navy, who commanded the fleet on Lake Champlain in a successful engagement with the British fleet, near Plattsburg, 1814.


County Population: 32788
Land Area (Sq. Miles): 584
Assessed Valuation: 373961398
State Highway Mileage: 102
County Highway Mileage: 180
Township Highway Mileage: 822
Municipal Highway Mileage: 155
County Seat: Macomb
State House District(s): 93
State Senate District(s): 47
U.S. Congressional Distict(s): 17






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