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Member of the East Central Illinois Wine Trail. [8] Castle Finn Vineyard and Winery Marshall, Illinois: 2010 Member of the State Line Wine Trail. [9] City Winery: Chicago, Illinois (two locations) 2012 Opened original site in New York City in 2008. [10] Collver Family Winery Barry, Illinois: 2002 Closed in 2015 [11] Cooper's Hawk Winery ...
According to the 2020 United States census, Illinois is the 6th most populous state with 12,812,508 inhabitants but the 24th largest by land area spanning 55,499.0 square miles (143,742 km 2) of land. [1] Illinois is divided into 102 counties and, as of 2020, contained 1,300 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, and villages.
Alton (/ ˈ ɔː l t ən / AWL-tən) is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about 18 miles (29 km) north of St. Louis, Missouri. The population was 25,676 at the 2020 census .
King of the Hill - feature-length film, shot in Alton, Illinois (1993) A Will of their Own - feature-length TV film, shot in Belleville, Illinois (1998) The Big Brass Ring - feature-length film, shot in Alton, Illinois (1999) Steel City - feature-length film, shot in Alton, East Alton, Godfrey, and Jerseyville, Illinois (2006)
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South Central Illinois is a region in the southern part of Illinois; its approximate boundaries are US 50 in the south, and Illinois Highway 16 in the north. With fertile soil throughout the region, agriculture is a chief industry here. Some of the largest communities in south-central Illinois are Alton, Collinsville, Edwardsville, and Effingham.
Illinois wine refers to any wine that is produced in the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2006, Shawnee Hills, in southern Illinois, was named the state's first American Viticultural Area . As of 2008, there were 79 wineries in Illinois, utilizing approximately 1,100 acres (4.5 km 2 ) of vines. [ 2 ]
Of the 102 counties of the state of Illinois, 84 are organized into civil townships, usually referred to as simply "townships" in state law. All told, Illinois has 1,428 such townships, and they are the slight majority of the state's general units of local government. [1] The legal name of each township is the form "___ Township" or "Town of ...