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State: Illinois: County: Hardin: Elevation [1] 561 ft (171 m) ... UTC-5 (CDT) Area code: 618: GNIS feature ID: 424698 [1] Cadiz is an unincorporated community in ...
State Illinois: Founded: 1825: Named for: Philip Schuyler ... Schuyler County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. ... (1,130 km 2) is land and 4.1 square miles ...
An Act to enable the people of the Illinois Territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states (April 18, 1818) Archived June 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine; Resolution declaring the admission of the state of Illinois into the Union (December 3 ...
Hardin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 3,649, [1] making it the least populous county in Illinois. Its county seat is Elizabethtown. [2] Hardin County is located in the part of the state known as Little Egypt.
When Illinois became a sovereign state in 1818, the Ordinance no longer applied, and there were about 900 slaves in the state. As the southern part of the state, known as "Egypt", was largely settled by migrants from the South, the section was hostile to free blacks and allowed settlers to bring slaves with them for labor.
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The Illinois Country (French: Pays des Illinois [pɛ.i dez‿i.ji.nwa]; lit. ' land of the Illinois people '; Spanish: País de los ilinueses), also referred to as Upper Louisiana (French: Haute-Louisiane [ot.lwi.zjan]; Spanish: Alta Luisiana), was a vast region of New France claimed in the 1600s that later fell under Spanish and British control before becoming what is now part of the ...
In the middle 19th century, Illinois developed and changed rapidly. The greatest change was in the building of railroads, and Macoupin County was on the rail and road transportation link between St. Louis and the still-young metropolis of Chicago. The county lies midway between St. Louis and the relocated state capital of Springfield.