Jacksonville, Illinois City of Jacksonville Jacksonville, Illinois is positioned in Illinois Jacksonville, Illinois Jacksonville is a town/city in Morgan County, Illinois, United States.
Jacksonville is the principal town/city of the Jacksonville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Morgan and Scott counties.
Jacksonville was established by European Americans on a 160-acre tract of territory in the center of Morgan County in 1825, two years after the county was founded.
Ellis worked to found a new "seminary of learning" in the new state of Illinois.
The college stimulated the expansion of Jacksonville.
By 1834, Jacksonville had the biggest population of any town/city in the state of Illinois, outnumbering Chicago.
Jacksonville's education complex and standing in the state was advanced by the establishment of state establishments: the Illinois School for the Deaf and the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired.
The Illinois Conference Female Academy was established for education for girls; it later advanced as Mac - Murray College.
By 1850, Illinois College had issued Illinois' first college degrees and opened the first medical school in the state.
Because of this, Jacksonville earned the nickname of "Athens of the West." In 1851, Illinois opened its first state mental hospital in Jacksonville; it became a primary employer for the area. Now titled the Jacksonville Developmental Center, this facility serves developmentally challenged individuals. The attorney Abraham Lincoln occasionally had legal company in Jacksonville, incessantly acting either as co-counsel or opposing counsel with David A.
Smith, a Jacksonville resident. In what is now Central Park Plaza, Lincoln bringed a strong antislavery speech on September 6, 1856 in support of the presidential campaign of John C.
Fremont, lasting over two hours. A mural depicting the event has been painted on the side of a building at the southwest corner of the Park. During the antebellum years, Jacksonville was a primary stopping point on the historic Underground Railroad, as refugee slaves moved north to freedom, many going into Canada.
The town/city has an annual commemoration of the Civil War, with a reenactment titled for the late Jacksonville resident U.S.
In 1911 as part of the progressive movement, Jacksonville adopted the town/city commission form of government, the first mayor being George W.
In the summer of 1965, in order to keep up with customer demand for records by the Beatles, the wildly prominent English band, Capitol Records opened a vinyl record pressing plant on the outskirts of Jacksonville, at 1 Capitol Way.
EMI held a "thank-you" luncheon for 1,000 workers at the Jacksonville plant on March 10, 1995. A decade later, EMI ceased manufacturing operations at Jacksonville in 2004. Jacksonville is positioned at 39 43 55 N 90 14 4 W (39.731936, -90.234394). According to the 2010 census, Jacksonville has a total region of 10.663 square miles (27.62 km2), of which 10.47 square miles (27.12 km2) (or 98.19%) is territory and 0.193 square miles (0.50 km2) (or 1.81%) is water. Just to the south of the town/city lies Lake Jacksonville, a 476-acre lake with 18.6 miles of shoreline. Lake Jacksonville was titled the Number One Fishing Spot in Illinois by Field and Stream Magazine. Sullivan established the firm with the introduction of his first portable "Big Eli" Wheel on the Jacksonville Square on May 23, 1900.
Capps & Son Company, one of the biggest manufacturers of textiles and clothing in the United States, and owned by the Capps family, which was intermarried with the family of Jacob Bunn and John Whitfield Bunn of Springfield, Illinois, and Chicago.
Jacksonville is home to two private four-year colleges, Illinois College and Mac - Murray College.
Illinois College is the second earliest college in Illinois, established in 1829 (and the first to grant a degree - 1835) by one of the famous Yale Bands students from Yale University who traveled westward to found new colleges.
It briefly served as the state's first medical school from 1843 1848, and became co-educational (Jacksonville Female Academy was established in 1836 by John Adams) in 1903.
Beecher Hall, the first college building erected in Illinois, is titled after its first president, Edward Beecher, sibling to Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Jacksonville is also home to three state-run establishments, including the Illinois School for the Deaf, the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired, and the Jacksonville Correctional Center.
Jacksonville is home to three high schools, two private, and one public, including Routt Catholic High School.
Jacksonville School District 117 provides education for the town/city and much of the county with six elementary schools, one junior high school, and one senior high school.
The city's daily newspaper, the Jacksonville Journal-Courier, is the earliest continuously presented journal in Illinois (since 1830).
NOAA Weather Radio station WXM90 transmits from Lynnville and is licensed to NOAA's National Weather Service Central Illinois Weather Forecast Office at Lincoln, transmitting on a recurrence of 162.525 m - Hz (channel 6 on most newer weather radios, and most SAME weather radios).
The station activates the SAME tone alarm feature and a 1050 Hz tone activating older radios (except for AMBER Alerts, using the SAME feature only) for hazardous weather and non-weather warnings and emergencies, along with chose weather watches, for the Illinois counties of Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Greene, Morgan, Pike, and Scott.
The Jacksonville Developmental Center, a state facility, directed here from 1851 to November 2012. Main article: List of citizens from Jacksonville, Illinois In 2005, Sufjan Stevens released Illinois, a concept album making reference to various citizens and places associated with the state.
The Grammy-winning album Stones in the Road by singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter features the song "John Doe #24" that describes a series of affairs that occurred in Jacksonville relating to the person on whose life the song is based.
The song tells the story of a blind and deaf man who was found wandering the streets in Jacksonville in 1945.
During his 48 years of institutionalization, nobody ever found out his name, nor did anyone who knew or was related to him come to Jacksonville to establish his identity.
Cultural offerings include the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, the Jacksonville Theatre Guild, the Art Association of Jacksonville and its David Strawn Art Gallery, as well as many enhance affairs and activities hosted by Mac - Murray College and Illinois College.
Jacksonville also holds the unusual distinct ion of having a large number of pipe organs for a town/city of its size - eleven in all - found at various small-town churches, as well as both of its four-year colleges. "City of Jacksonville, Illinois".
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"Jacksonville Visitor's Guide" (PDF).
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Jacksonville Area Convention & Visitors Bureau.
"Voices of Jacksonville - Audio tour sites".
"Illinois School for the Deaf".
"Last of Jacksonville Developmental Center inhabitants moved out".
"History of Jacksonville - Jacksonville".
Doyle, The Social Order of a Frontier Community: Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825-70, 1978 Fernandes, The People of Jacksonville A Pictorial History, 1991 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jacksonville, Illinois.
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Municipalities and communities of Morgan County, Illinois, United States County seat: Jacksonville Jacksonville Waverly Chapin Concord Franklin Lynnville Meredosia Murrayville South Jacksonville Woodson
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