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The legal name of each township is the form "___ Township" or "Town of ____". [2] State law specifies that no two townships in Illinois shall have the same name, [ 3 ] and that, if the Illinois Secretary of State compares the township abstracts and finds a duplicate, the county that last adopted the name shall instead adopt a different name at ...
Morris is located in northeast Grundy County along U.S. Route 6 and Illinois Route 47 and on the north side of the Illinois River [8] [9] at an elevation of 515 feet (157 m). [ 1 ] According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Morris has a total area of 11.64 square miles (30.15 km 2 ), of which 11.28 square miles (29.22 km 2 ) (or 96.92%) is ...
Richland County was established in 1841 out of portions of East part of Clay and West part of Lawrence counties. [4] It was named for Richland County, Ohio, where many of the early settlers migrated from. [3]: Origin of the name of the county
Illinois Route 33 passes through the center of the city as Main Street, leading east 7 miles (11 km) to Palestine near the Indiana border and west 24 miles (39 km) to Newton. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Robinson has a total area of 4.76 square miles (12.33 km 2 ), of which 4.70 square miles (12.17 km 2 ) (or 98.72%) is land ...
The Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois is the lowest point, at 279 feet (85 m). Average elevation is 600 feet (180 m) above sea level. McLean County is the largest county in terms of land area (1,184 sq mi.), while Cook County is the largest county in terms of population (5,275,541 as of 2020), and the largest when land and water area are ...
Normal is a town in McLean County, Illinois, United States.As of the 2020 census, the town's population was 52,736.Normal is the smaller of two principal cities of the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area, and is Illinois' seventh most populous community outside the Chicago metropolitan area.
Mount Vernon is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Illinois, United States. [4] The population was 14,600 at the 2020 census.Mount Vernon is the principal city of the Mount Vernon Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Jefferson and Hamilton counties.
Lincoln is a city in Logan County, Illinois, United States.First settled in the 1830s, it is the only town in the U.S. that was named for Abraham Lincoln before he became president; he practiced law there from 1847 to 1859.