Golf in Gibson City

Gibson City is a Ford County community in east-central Illinois, positioned in the flat agricultural plain northeast of Champaign near the Illinois Central rail corridor that gave the town its initial economic foundation. Railside Golf Club carries that railroad heritage in its name, connecting the course to the town's origin story. Ford County is one of Illinois' more sparsely populated agricultural counties, and Gibson City functions as its commercial center with a limited range of services and recreational options. The surrounding farmland is as flat as anywhere in the state, with Railside providing recreational golf against a backdrop of corn and soybean fields stretching to the horizon.