Eylar is a village of thirty inhabitants on the Middle Division of the Illinois Central railroad, nine miles east of Pontiac and ninety-five miles from Chicago The Western Union Telegraph has a day office and the American Express company has an agent here. The grain shipments from this point for 1897 amounted to 240,000 bushels. Eylar is in Union Township.

Eylar Business Directory 1898

• Charles M. Puffer, General Merchandiser and Grain
• The Middle Division Elevator Co. - T. Shaplin, Manager, grain
• Thomas Shaplin Coal
• James H. Routh, Steam Flour and Feed Mill
• H.K. Gilman, Railroad and Express Agent.

Transcribed from
The Livingston County Business Directory
Charles A. Stuck, Publisher
Odell, Illinois 1898