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Buckner is located in west-central Franklin County at (37.981131, -89.015693 Illinois Route 14 passes through the village, leading east 5.5 miles (8.9 km) to Benton , the county seat , and west 2 miles (3 km) to Christopher .
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State law specifies that no two townships in Illinois shall have the same name, [3] and that, if the Illinois Secretary of State compares the township abstracts and finds a duplicate, the county that last adopted the name shall instead adopt a different name at the next county board meeting. [4]
Franklin County is a county in Southern Illinois. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 37,804. [1] The largest city is West Frankfort and the county seat is Benton. [2] This area of Southern Illinois is known locally as "Little Egypt".
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Cook County assistant state’s attorneys filed a union petition in 1993, but the Illinois Supreme Court later ruled that the prosecutors were “managerial employees” without the right to unionize.
According to "The Heritage of Franklin County Illinois" by Susie M. Ramsey and Flossie P. Miller (1964), "Tyrone Township was named after an old steamboat. The first land entries were made by Levi Silkwood and John Kirkpatrick in 1831, and John Mulkey in 1833."