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The district includes the campuses of two prominent Jacksonville educational institutions: Illinois College and the Illinois School for the Deaf. Illinois College, the first college in Illinois to grant a degree, was founded in 1829; its first building, Beecher Hall, is the oldest building in the district.
South Jacksonville is in central Morgan County and is bordered to the north by the city of Jacksonville, the county seat. Illinois Route 267 (Main Street) runs through the village center, leading north as Jacksonville's Main Street 2 miles (3 km) to the city center and south 6 miles (10 km) to Woodson.
The Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, which (as the Milestone Motor Hotel) was the first to use the "motel" name, sits incomplete with what is still standing left boarded up and fenced off at the side of U.S. Route 101; a 2002 restoration proposal [35] never came to fruition.
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South Jacksonville may refer to: South Jacksonville, Illinois, a village in Morgan County, Illinois; South Jacksonville, Florida, a former city in Florida, now ...
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Jacksonville was established by European Americans on a 160-acre tract of land in the center of Morgan County in 1825, two years after the county was founded. The founders of Jacksonville, Illinois consisted entirely of settlers from New England .