working to secure funding for an additional multimillion-dollar intermodal port facility. Public transit Quincy Transit Lines provides fixed-route and paratransit bus service throughout Quincy. There are four fixed routes, and each route is split into two branches. Those routes run Monday–Saturday, between 6:00 am and 6:00 pm. During Sundays and holidays, Quincy Transit Lines operates a pared-down version of the fixed-route system that is made up of two routes – the North route and the South route. Quincy Transit Lines route Route 4 stops near the city's Amtrak station at Wissman Lane/30th Street intersection. Notable people Mary Astor, Academy Award-winning actress Avenue Beat, pop/R&B trio Bruce Douglas, American professional basketball player Bruce Edwards, American professional baseball player William F. Gibbs, Illinois state legislator, farmer, and businessman John W. Henry, businessman Caren Kemner, Olympic volleyball player Elmo McClain, Illinois state representative and teacher Fritz Ostermueller, Major League Baseball pitcher Arthur Pitney, inventor of postage meter and co-founder of Pitney Bowes Ike Samuels, Major League Baseball player James B. Stewart, lawyer, journalist and author William Bushnell Stout, inventor Michael Swango, serial killer and former physician Paul Tibbets, pilot who flew the Enola Gay Augustus Tolton first recognized African-American Roman Catholic priest in the United States Jonathan Van Ness, hairstylist and member of the Fab Five on Netflix's Queer Eye Irma Voigt, Dean of Women at Ohio University Elmer H. Wavering, president of Motorola and inventor of car radio, automotive alternator, and walkie-talkie John Wood, 12th Governor of Illinois See also Potawatomi Trail of Death United Express Flight 5925 List of people from Quincy, Illinois References Further reading Costigan, David. A city in wartime: Quincy, Illinois and the Civil War (iUniverse, 2021). Prinsloo, Oleta, "'The Abolitionist Factory': Northeastern Religion, David Nelson, and the Mission Institute near Quincy, Illinois, 1836–1844," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (Spring 2012), 105#1 36–68. External links Quincy Convention & Visitor's Bureau Great River Economic Development Foundation Quincy Area Chamber of Commerce 1994 reenactment of Lincoln-Douglas Debate in Quincy televised by C-SPAN (Debate preview and Debate review) Quincy, Illinois micropolitan area Cities in Adams County, Illinois Cities in Illinois Illinois populated places on the Mississippi River County seats in Illinois Quincy–Hannibal area Significant places in Mormonism Populated places on the Underground Railroad Populated places established in 1819 1819 establishments in Illinois