from other races, and 0.49% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.34% of the population. There were 2,093 households, out of which 27.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.6% were married couples living together, 9.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.9% were non-families. 33.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size was 2.89. In the city, the population was spread out, with 23.0% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 25.3% from 25 to 44, 21.5% from 45 to 64, and 21.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.6 males. The median income for a household in the city was $32,458, and the median income for a family was $39,205. Males had a median income of $31,477 versus $18,710 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,596. About 6.2% of families and 9.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.2% of those under age 18 and 13.8% of those age 65 or over. Lake Shelbyville Dam The Kaskaskia River has been dammed where it breaches the Shelbyville Moraine, forming Lake Shelbyville. The Army Corps of Engineers broke ground on the dam in 1963, and construction was completed in the early summer of 1970. Tours of the dam are given at 3 P.M. Saturdays and Sundays. Notable people George A. Bowman (1890–1957), Wisconsin State Assembly member Orval Caldwell (1895–1972), painter and one-time president of the Art Institute of Chicago George D. Chafee (1839–1927), Illinois state legislator and lawyer Josephine Cochran (1839–1913), invented and patented the dishwasher (1886) Augusta Cottlow (1878–1954), concert pianist Jesse Monroe Donaldson (1895–1970), served as Postmaster General of the United States (1947–1953) Howland J. Hamlin (1850–1909), served as Illinois Attorney General (1901–1905) Samuel Wheeler Moulton (1821–1905), Illinois politician, Congressman, considered the father of public education in Illinois, lived in Shelbyville (1849–1905) Robert Marshall Root (1863–1937), noted Midwestern tonalist and impressionist painter Anthony Thornton (1814–1904), state representative (1851–1852), Congressman (1865–1867) and Supreme Court of Illinois justice (1870–1873); debated Abraham Lincoln in Shelbyville (1856)