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Henderson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 United States Census , it has a population of 6,387. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Oquawka . [ 2 ]
Knox would later become a county in Indiana and is unrelated to the current Knox County in Illinois, while St. Clair would become the oldest county in Illinois. 15 counties had been created by the time Illinois achieved statehood in 1818. The last county, Ford County, was created in 1859.
The McDonough County Courthouse is located in the McDonough County city of Macomb, in the U.S. state of Illinois.The courthouse was constructed in 1871. Architect Elijah E. Myers designed the building in the Second Empire style; the courthouse is one of the few remaining Second Empire buildings in the United States.
Clerk Term in office Party Notes Cite 1st George Davis: 1837–1849 First elected Cook County Clerk [1] 2nd Edmund S. Kimberly: 1849–1853 [1] 3rd Charles B. Farwell: 1853–1861 [1] 4th Laurin P. Hilliard: 1861–1865 [1] 5th Edward S. Salomon: 1865–November 1869 Republican [2] [3] 6th John G. Gindele: 1869–January 1872 Died in office [1 ...
The Cook County Sheriff's Office is the sheriff.All Cook County Sheriff's Deputies have police powers regardless of their particular job function or title. Like other Sheriffs' departments in Illinois, the Sheriff can provide all traditional law-enforcement functions, including county-wide patrol and investigations irrespective of municipal boundaries, even in the city of Chicago, but has ...
McHenry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 Census, it had a population of 310,229, [2] making it the sixth-most populous county in Illinois. Its county seat is Woodstock. [3] McHenry County is one of the five Illinois collar counties in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical ...
While towns farther north rotated the honor of county seat, the site of Fort Defiance at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi had been growing into a significant town. The General Assembly chartered a company to found a town there in 1837 under the name of "Cairo, Illinois", [1]: 24 and by 1841 Cairo had two thousand residents.
Bridge on Illinois Route 15 connecting Wabash and Gibson counties. This span no longer exists. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 228 square miles (590 km 2), of which 223 square miles (580 km 2) is land and 4.3 square miles (11 km 2) (1.9%) is water. [4] It is the fifth-smallest county in Illinois by area.