Carlinville

Carlinville

      city, seat (1829) of Macoupin county, west-central Illinois, U.S. It lies about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Springfield. The first settlement on the site, in an area known as Black Hawk hunting ground (frequented by Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo Indians), was made about 1815. The community was founded in 1828 and named for Governor Thomas Carlin. Agriculture (chiefly corn [maize] and soybeans, as well as livestock) and dairy processing are important to the local economy. Industrial activities include coal mining and the manufacture of concrete and computer software.

      Blackburn College, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), was established in 1837; in 1913, under the leadership of William M. Hudson, the school became internationally known for its work program to reduce tuition costs and for its student management. A notable feature of the city is the “million-dollar” Macoupin County Courthouse (completed 1870), a limestone structure with an imposing 191-foot (58-metre) dome; the construction of the courthouse—once one of the country's largest—was attended by fraud and scandal. The city also contains a historic Gothic Revival jail, completed in 1869; now a popular tourist site, the jail operated until 1988. The first American Civil War regiment in Illinois was organized at Carlinville, and three Union generals—John M. Palmer, Richard Rowett, and John I. Rinaker—lived there. Palmer and Rinaker are buried in the city's cemetery. A plaque on the lawn of the Methodist church commemorates a speech Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln, Abraham) made there in 1858 in the campaign against Stephen A. Douglas (Douglas, Stephen A) for the U.S. Senate. The city's Standard Addition neighbourhood, dating from 1918, is home to 152 Sears, Roebuck and Company kit homes—the largest concentration of such homes in the United States. Author Mary Austin (Austin, Mary) was born in Carlinville in 1868. Beaver Dam State Park is southwest of the city. Inc. 1837. Pop. (1990) 5,416; (2000) 5,685.

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