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Ultimately, Mount Sterling won the 1987 competition and the state constructed the Western Illinois Correctional Center along State Highway 99 a mile south of town. In 1989 immediately prior to opening, the prison hosted a "Spend a night in prison" event for state and local dignitaries and prominent business-owners, an event that ultimately ...
Mount Sterling Municipal Airport (FAA LID: I63) is a public use airport located 2 miles west of Mount Sterling, Illinois.The airport is publicly owned. [1]The airport sees traffic from Dot Foods and its vendors as well as seasonal hunters, crop dusters, and medevac aircraft.
In recent years, average temperatures in the county seat of Mount Sterling have ranged from a low of 15 °F (−9 °C) in January to a high of 87 °F (31 °C) in July, although a record low of −26 °F (−32 °C) was recorded in February 1905 and a record high of 113 °F (45 °C) was recorded in July 1936.
The plan to reorganize the educational districts of Brown County included the construction of new K-8 schools in Mount Sterling, as well as the surrounding villages of Versailles and Ripley and the unincorporated areas of Cooperstown, Timewell, and Hersman. Slowly, the one-room school houses that originally housed the students of the county ...
Brown County High School, or BCHS, is a public four-year high school located at 500 East Main Street in Mount Sterling, Illinois, a small city in Brown County, Illinois, in the Midwestern United States. BCHS serves the communities of Mount Sterling, Ripley, Timewell, and Versailles.
Mount Sterling Township is one of nine townships in Brown County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 4,297 and it contained 1,268 housing units. As of the 2020 census, its population was 4,297 and it contained 1,268 housing units.
WLLT (94.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Polo, Illinois, covering Northern Illinois, including Dixon, Sterling, Rock Falls, and Morrison. WLLT currently has an oldies format and is owned by White Rabbit Broadcasting LLC. WLLT also airs local high school sporting events and features local news.
Sterling is a city in Whiteside County, Illinois, United States, along the Rock River.The population was 14,782 at the 2020 census, down from 15,370 in 2010.Formerly nicknamed "Hardware Capital of the World", the city has long been associated with manufacturing and the steel industry.