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Harrisburg (/ ˈ h ær ɪ s b ɜːr ɡ, ˈ h ɛər z-/) is a city in and the county seat of Saline County, Illinois, United States. [2] It is located about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southwest of Evansville, Indiana, and 111 mi (179 km) southeast of St. Louis, Missouri.
The largest city and county seat is Harrisburg. [2] This area of Southern Illinois is known locally as "Little Egypt". Three major towns in Saline County are connected by U.S. Route 45, and formerly by the now-abandoned Cairo and Vincennes/Big Four/New York Central Line, from north to south: Eldorado, Harrisburg, and Carrier Mills.
The Saline County Poor Farm is a historic poor farm located at 1600 Feazel Road in Harrisburg, Illinois. The farm was founded in 1863 in accordance with an 1839 state law providing for each county to establish a poor farm or almshouse.
The History of Saline County (published by Saline County Genealogical Society in 1997) states that "Lakeview, a colored community south of town (Carrier Mills), is an older settlement than Carrier Mills. It is the oldest black settlement in Illinois. It was first named Pond Settlement because of the swamp land that surrounded it.
Built in 1967, it is the fifth courthouse to serve the county and the third in Harrisburg. The first land purchase in present-day Saline County occurred late in 1814, [1]: 152 at a time when the nearby Illinois Salines in today's Gallatin County were still providing the majority of the area's
The tornado damage in Harrisburg dominated national airwaves for several days with both Anderson Cooper, and Diane Sawyer doing special reports. [19] [20] Both The New York Times and Chicago Tribune wrote articles on the resilient history and nature of Harrisburg in the wake of the tornado and floods that have hit the city since its founding in ...
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WEBQ's first license was granted on September 30, 1924, [4] to the Tate Radio Company in Harrisburg, Illinois. [5] The call letters were randomly assigned from a sequential roster of available call signs. It made its debut broadcast on the evening of November 26, 1924. [1]