Oregon, Illinois The Ogle County Courthouse at the heart of Oregon, Illinois The Ogle County Courthouse at the heart of Oregon, Illinois Oregon is positioned in Ogle County, Illinois Oregon - Oregon Show map of Ogle County, Illinois Location inside Ogle County Oregon is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Ogle County, Illinois, United States. The populace was 3,721 at the 2010 census. The territory Oregon, Illinois was established on was previously held by the Potawatomi and Winnebago Indian tribes.
Ogle County was a New England settlement.
The initial founders of Oregon and Rochelle consisted entirely of pioneer from New England.
When they appeared in what is now Bureau County there was nothing but a virgin forest and wild prairie, the New Englanders laid out farms, constructed roads, erected government buildings and established post routes.
Culturally Bureau County, like much of northern Illinois would be culturally very continuous with early New England culture, for most of its history. Phelps, the territory was claimed, subdivided and certified by the Ogle County clerk as Oregon City. In 1839 Oregon City was retitled Florence after a visitor compared the scenic beauty of the Rock River to the Italian town/city of the same name.
The town/city of Oregon was first organized under an act of the Illinois General Assembly which was allowed on April 1, 1869.
By the 1870s the town of Oregon and close-by area was home to around 2,000 citizens . James Gale was propel the city's first mayor on March 21, 1870 and four other men, Christian Lehman, W.W.
On March 29, 1873 the town/city was reorganized because of an act of the Illinois council which allowed the municipalities to incorporate as metros/cities and villages.
In 1920 the Oregon City Hall was constructed on the perimeter of the city's commercial precinct and it has been the center of town/city government ever since. The Ogle County Courthouse was assembled in 1891 on the corner of Washington Street and Fourth Street (Illinois Route 64 and Illinois Route 2).
The town/city of Oregon took in nearby Daysville, Illinois, in 1993.
According to the 2010 census, Oregon has a total region of 2.028 square miles (5.25 km2), of which 1.96 square miles (5.08 km2) (or 96.65%) is territory and 0.068 square miles (0.18 km2) (or 3.35%) is water. In 1898, sculptor Lorado Taft established the Eagle's Nest Art Colony on a bluff overlooking the Rock River, north of Oregon.
Taft and his art colony began to exert an influence on the town/city of Oregon and its culture.
One result of the colony's locale near Oregon was the inclusion of a second story art loggia in the Oregon Public Library when it was assembled in 1908.
In 1904, Taft created The Blind and then began focusing on more monumental works including The Eternal Indian positioned just north of Oregon in Illinois' Lowden State Park.
Several other Taft works are positioned in and around Oregon, including The Soldiers' Monument on the courthouse lawn. As of the census of 2010, there were 3,721 people, 1,630 homeholds, and 941 families residing in the city. The populace density was 1,998.5 citizens per square mile (772.2/km ).
In the city, the age distribution of the populace shows 79.6% over the age of 18, with 19.6% aged 65 years or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $47,971 and the median income for a family was $60,625.
Frank Orren Lowden, the 25th Governor of Illinois, kept an estate on the river just outside Oregon "Oregon Public Library", (PDF), National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, 27 March 2003, HAARGIS Database, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
"Oregon Commercial Historic District", (PDF), National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, 12 July 2006, HAARGIS Database, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
The History of Ogle County, Illinois: Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Illinois page 326 Oregon History", City of Oregon, official site.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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Municipalities and communities of Ogle County, Illinois, United States County seat: Oregon This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties
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