Babylon is an
unincorporated community
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in
Fulton County Fulton County is the name of eight counties in the United States of America. Most are named for Robert Fulton, inventor of the first practical steamboat:
*Fulton County, Arkansas, named after Governor William Savin Fulton
*Fulton County, Georgia
*F ...
,
Illinois
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, United States. The community is located on the
Spoon River
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, north of
Illinois Route 9
Illinois Route 9 (IL 9) is a cross-state, east–west rural state highway in the central part of the U.S. state of Illinois. It travels from Niota at the Fort Madison Toll Bridge, that crosses the Mississippi River into Iowa, eastward across ce ...
and south of
Ellisville.
References
Unincorporated communities in Fulton County, Illinois
Unincorporated communities in Illinois
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