Tallula, Illinois
Tallula is a village in Menard County, Illinois, Menard County, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1857 by William G. Greene. The population was 434 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, down from 488 in 2010 United States census, 2010. It is part of the Springfield, Illinois Springfield, Illinois metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. History William G. Greene, J. G. Greene, Richard Yates (politician, born 1815), Richard Yates, T. Baker, and W. G. Spears laid out Tallula in late 1857. The name of "Tallula" was said to be an Indian word. The ''History of Menard & Mason Counties, Illinois'' credits Spears with the name, and notes that it was said to mean "dropping water", but nothing in the area is especially related to dropping water; the county tourist bureau claims that William G. Greene named the town, that it means "trickling water", and that it is related to "abundant springs in the area". Tallula was municipal incorporation, incorporated as a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Towns And Villages In Illinois
Illinois is a U.S. state, state located in the Midwestern United States. According to the 2020 United States census, Illinois is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 6th most populous state with inhabitants but the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 24th largest by land area spanning of land. Illinois is divided into 102 County (United States), counties and, as of 2020, contained 1,300 Municipal corporation, municipalities consisting of cities, towns, and villages. The most populous city is Chicago with 2,746,388 residents while the least populous is Valley City, Illinois, Valley City with 14 residents. The largest municipality by land area is Chicago, which spans , while the smallest is Irwin, Illinois, Irwin at . List File:ChicagoFromCellularField.jpg, alt=Skyline of Chicago, Chicago is Illinois' most populous municipality. File:Paramount Theatre - panoramio.jpg, alt=Paramount Theatre, Aurora, Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Illinois, Aurora, Illi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petersburg, Illinois
Petersburg is a city in and the county seat of Menard County, Illinois, Menard County, Illinois, United States, on the bluffs and part of the floodplain overlooking the Sangamon River. It is part of the Springfield, Illinois Springfield, Illinois metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,258 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, nearly unchanged from 2010. Petersburg is located approximately north of New Salem, Menard County, Illinois, New Salem, the original location where Abraham Lincoln first settled, as he started his career. History The town began as a planned community organized by real estate speculators Peter Lukins (for whom the town is named) and George Warburton. Abraham Lincoln worked as the surveying, surveyor who first mapped, measured and help to divide lots on the land. Petersburg quickly grew, due to an advantageous placement on the river, becoming the county seat in the 1830s and eventually drawing off the population of New S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Native American (U
Native Americans or Native American usually refers to Native Americans in the United States Native Americans (also called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans) are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the United States, particularly of the Contiguous United States, lower 48 states and A .... Related terms and peoples include: Ethnic groups * Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the pre-Columbian peoples of North, South, and Central America and their descendants * Indigenous peoples in Canada ** First Nations in Canada, Canadian Indigenous peoples who are neither Inuit nor Métis ** Inuit, Indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Alaska. ** Métis in Canada, specific cultural communities who trace their descent to early communities consisting of both First Nations people and European settlers * Indigenous peoples of Costa Rica * Indi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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White (U
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. The color white can be given with white pigments, especially titanium dioxide. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity, and Romans wore white togas as symbols of citizenship. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance a white unicorn symbolized chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity. It was the royal color of the kings of France as well as the flag of monarchist France from 1815 to 1830, and of the monarchist movement that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). Greek temples and Roman temples were faced with white marble, and beginning in the 18th c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of statistics. This term is used mostly in connection with Population and housing censuses by country, national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include Census of agriculture, censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications, and other useful information to coordinate international practices. The United Nations, UN's Food ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Illinois River
The Illinois River () is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River at approximately in length. Located in the U.S. state of Illinois, the river has a drainage basin of . The Illinois River begins with the confluence of the Des Plaines River, Des Plaines and Kankakee River, Kankakee rivers in the Chicago metropolitan area, and it generally flows to the southwest across Illinois, until it empties into the Mississippi near Grafton, Illinois. Its drainage basin extends into southeastern Wisconsin, northwestern Indiana, and a very small area of southwestern Michigan in addition to central Illinois. Along its banks are several river ports, including the largest, Peoria, Illinois. Historic and recreation areas on the river include Starved Rock State Park, Starved Rock, and the internationally List of Ramsar sites in the United States, important wetlands of the Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge, Emiquon Complex and Dixon Waterfowl Refuge. The river was important among Native A ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sangamon River
The Sangamon River is a principal tributary of the Illinois River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed May 13, 2011 in central Illinois in the United States. It drains a mostly rural agriculture, agricultural area and runs through Decatur, Illinois, Decatur and past Springfield, Illinois, Springfield. The river is associated with the early career of Abraham Lincoln, who was a sometime boatman working on the river, and played an important role in early European settlement of Illinois, when the area around was known as the "Sangamon River Country". The section of the Sangamon River that flows through Robert Allerton Park near Monticello, Illinois, Monticello was named a National Natural Landmark in 1971. Description The river rises from several short headstreams in southern McLean County, Illinois, McLean County that arise from a glacial moraine southeast of Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. Par ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ashland, Illinois
Ashland is a village in Cass County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,218 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Ashland has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the 2020 census there were 1,218 people, 539 households, and 381 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 571 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 94.75% White, 0.74% African American, 0.49% Native American, 0.25% Asian, 0.16% from other races, and 3.61% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.25% of the population. There were 539 households, out of which 29.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.97% were married couples living together, 21.89% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.31% were non-families. 26.72% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.91% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or old ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pleasant Plains, Illinois
Pleasant Plains is a village in Sangamon County, Illinois, Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. The population was 809 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Illinois Springfield, Illinois metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The village was incorporated April 8, 1876 Geography. Pleasant Plains is located at (39.874221, -89.920106). According to the 2010 census, Pleasant Plains has a total area of , all land. Demographics. As of the census of 2020, there were 809 people, 310 households, and 228 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 310 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 97.4% White (U.S. Census), White, 0.5% African American (U.S. Census), African American, 0.4% Asian (U.S. Census), Asian, and 1.3% from two or more races. Hispanic (U.S. Census), Hispanic or Latino (U.S. Census), Latino of any race were 0.9% of the population. There were 310 households, out of which 36 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Illinois Route 125
Illinois Route 125 (IL-125) is a major highway in the central portion of the U.S. state of Illinois. Illinois 125 runs east from the concurrent U.S. Route 67 and Illinois Route 100 near Beardstown to Illinois Route 97 in Farmingdale, west of Springfield. Route description Illinois 125 lies within Cass County and Sangamon County, and serves the towns of Ashland and Virginia. Virginia is the county seat of Cass County. IL-125 follows most of the route of the ''Sangamon Trail'', a pioneer trail from Springfield, the state capital, to the Illinois River. Points of interest directly located on IL-125 include the Clayville Tavern, an 1824 hostelry located east of Pleasant Plains, and the Illinois River bluff at Bluff Springs, five miles (8 km) east of Beardstown and the river. Points of interest marked on IL-125, but not directly on the road, include the Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area in eastern Cass County northwest of Ashland, and the ol ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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County Seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equivalent term, shire town, is used in the U.S. state of Vermont and in several other English-speaking jurisdictions. Canada In Canada, the Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia have counties as an administrative division of government below the provincial level, and thus county seats. In the provinces of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, the term "shire town" is used in place of county seat. China County seats in China are the administrative centers of the counties in the China, People's Republic of China. They have existed since the Warring States period and were set up nationwide by the Qin dynasty. The number of counties in China proper g ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Illinois Route 123
Illinois Route 123 (IL-123) is an east–west state highway in central Illinois, USA. long, it stretches from Historic Route 66 at Williamsville to Illinois Route 125 near Pleasant Plains. Route description All of IL-123's route is contained within Sangamon and Menard counties. Major towns located on or adjacent to IL-123 include Athens, Petersburg, and Williamsville. New Salem, the home of Abraham Lincoln in the 1830s, has been reconstructed as Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site near Petersburg on IL-123. History SBI Route 123 was what Illinois 123 is now, plus a road from Ashland south to Alexander at Interstate 72/U.S. Route 36. In 1999, Illinois 123 was truncated on its southern end to Illinois 125. In October 2003, Illinois 123 was extended east to Williamsville, replacing some of Illinois Route 124 Illinois Route 124 (IL 124) is a state route in central Illinois. It has the distinction of being marked as an east–west route,Sarjeant, Char ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |