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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 14:16, 3 February 2008: 512 × 512 (270 KB): File Upload Bot (Omnedon) == Summary == {{Information |Description={{en|This is a map of Knox County, Illinois, USA which highlights the location of Sparta Township.}} |Source=My own work, using freely-available TIGER data and custom-written MapScript applications |Date=2008-02-0
Sparta Township is one of twenty-one townships in Knox County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,165 and it contained 517 housing units. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,165 and it contained 517 housing units.
The constitutionality of zoning ordinances was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. in 1926. According to the New York Times, "single-family zoning is practically gospel in America," as a vast number of cities zone land extensively for detached single-family homes. [10]
Freeport is a small industrial city of 24,000 in northwest Illinois. For a price tag of $13 million, it's building a new public water system to tap deep into new, uncontaminated water sources.
A Chicago Tribune article from December 29, 2009, accused the Illinois Department of Public Health of withholding information on the carcinogenic effects of the village's water "Six months after state health officials declared their investigation of cancer rates in south suburban Crestwood was almost complete, they have yet to release the ...
The association chose to move to the vicinity of Sparta, following extensive lobbying by the city and the state. In 2006, then-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and local dignitaries opened the World Shooting and Recreational Complex north of Sparta. The ATA hosted its first Grand American at the facility in August, with several thousand ...
The basic subdivisions of Illinois are the 102 counties. [2] Illinois has more units of local government than any other state—over 8,000 in all. [3] The Constitution of 1970 created, for the first time in Illinois, a type of "home rule", which allows localities to govern themselves to a certain extent. [4]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.