Today Decatur Park District plays host to more than 7,500 youth and adult athletes as part of a number of locally run programs including baseball, soccer, softball, tumbling, wrestling, basketball, Special Olympics and others. Decatur is fast becoming a leader in American industry and technological breakthroughs, today growing the products that feed the world and leading the way nationally in the development of sustainable practices and other green initiatives necessary to the growth and protection of this country.