Meadows is located on US Route 24, midway between Chenoa and Gridley, with easy access from Interstate 55.

Meadows at one time had a bank, general store, auto garage, a washing machine factory, and a school.

[2] The Original Town consisted of ten blocks on either side of the railroad with additional lots just north of the tracks.

It has access to the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway and is a main grain shipping facility in the area.

Consideration of where the church should be built was a main concern because people of the late 19th century mostly had to be transported by horse and carriage.

But Meadows boasted a passenger railway stop, a luxury of the time that most small towns did not have.