Editing Manteno, Illinois (section)

==Economy==
Manteno is located approximately {{convert|50|mi}} south of [[Chicago]]'s [[Chicago Loop|loop]]. There is a combination of industrial and agricultural employers in town. Farmers Elevator Company of Manteno stands as the tallest site in town, with the ability to house 2 million bushels of corn or soybeans at any one time.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tabern|first1=Robert|last2=Tabern|first2=Kandace|title=Outside the Rails: A Rail Route Guide from Chicago to Carbondale, IL|date=December 9, 2016|publisher=Outside the Rails Books|isbn=9781365214295|edition=First}}</ref>

Manteno is home the Diversatech Industrial Park is on the east side of town. It contains many diversified industrial plants and warehousing complexes.

[[Manteno State Hospital]], one of the largest [[psychiatric hospital]]s in the country when it opened in 1928, was located {{convert|2|mi|0}} southeast of the village. It received its first patients in 1930 and closed in 1985. That closure and the 1983 closure of Hilman Hospital, a general medical hospital, brought economic stagnation to the town. The north half of the original campus of the state hospital has been turned into a veterans' home. Some buildings have been torn down and housing has been put up. A lot of the buildings have been renovated, and very few buildings on the south side of the campus are left in original condition, but are still abandoned.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}