Monroe County, Illinois
Monroe County is very unique and has many towns and cities in it that have very fasinating facts about them. Some of the towns and cities are Glasgow City, Renault, Chalfin Bridge, and Waterloo. Even though the towns have fasinating facts, the facts about just the county in general and where it was given the name from is also very interesting. The population and type of people in the population can be very unusual but interesting also. Fasinating and interesting, the population and the facts about Monroe County and its towns is something that you could really get interested into researching.
Facts about Monroe County
Some very interesting historical facts and population facts about Monroe County are the fact that is was named after the United States’s fifth president, James Monroe. Every ten years the population increased. In 1900 it was 13,847 and by the year 2000 it was 27, 619. That is almost twice the amount it was in 1900 (“Monroe County, Illinois” para.1.1,1.2 ). The parenting counties of Monroe County are Randolph county and St. Clair County. Monroe County has five neighboring counties if you include it’s parents The counties are Jefferson County, MO: Randolph County, IL; Ste. Genevieve County, MO; St. Louis County, MO; and St. Clair County, IL (“Monroe County, Illinois” para. 1.2, 1.3 ). In Monroe County there is four public library’s. The library’s are as follows: Columbia Public Library, Hecker Public Library, Morrison-Talbott Library, and the Valmeyer Public Library District (“Monroe County, Illinois” para.2.17.4).
Quick Facts on the population, geography, and sales of Monroe County, IL
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Works Cited
Combined History of Randolph, Monroe and Perry Counties, Illinois: With Illustrations Descriptive of Their Scenery and Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Men and Pioneers. Philadelphia: J.L. McDonough, 1883. Print.
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Rex, Nelson William. Stagecoach!: The Monroe County Connection. Waterloo, IL: N. W. Rex, 2014. Print.
There have been many horrific and disturbing murders in Illinois. There have also been gangs that have been born and destroyed in Illinois. Two of these terrible happened to take place in little Skidmore. One of the gangs in Illinois was Charlie Birger and his Boys. A dreadful and unfortunate murder happened on the famous Chain of Rocks Bridge. The last murder took place in a young woman’s house. Many of these murders and gangs were terrible and scarred the state of Illinois.
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James Monroe was born on April 28,1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, at this time Virginia was a British colony. He was the oldest son of five children, one sister and three brothers. They were the children of Elizabeth Jones Monroe and Spence Monroe. Spence Monroe was a farmer and a carpenter. When James was eleven he started to attend Campbelltown Academy. In 1774 when James Monroe was sixteen Spence Monroe died and James was left to manage the family property. James Monroe attended the college of William and Mary in Williamsburg the July after his father died.
When writing William Cooper's Town, Alan Taylor connects local history with widespread political, economic, and cultural patterns in the early republic, appraises the balance of the American Revolution as demonstrated by a protrusive family's background, and merge the history of the frontier settlement with the visualizing and reconstituting of that experience in literature. Taylor achieves these goals through a vivid and dramatic coalescing of narrative and analytical history. His book will authoritatively mandate and regale readers in many ways, especially for its convincing and memorable representation of two principles subjects- William Cooper, the frontier entrepreneur and town builder, and his youngest son, the theoretical James Fenimore Cooper, who molded his own novelistic portrayal of family history through accounts such as The Pioneers (1823).
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James Monroe, a Democratic Republican, ran for a second term and was the third and last candidate to run effectively unopposed or without any serious competition. Monroe was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, on April 28, 1758. He was the son of a humble and lowly farmer, Spence, who was an active supporter of the protest against British control over the colonies. In 1774, Spence Monroe died and the law of Virginia states that the eldest son, James, was to inherit the land. Later that year he entered the College of William and Mary. However, studying was not a priority as he got caught up in the excitement and passion of a revolution. He dropped out of school and enlisted in the Third Virginia Regiment. Monroe was soon promoted to a lieutenant and saw many battles as an aide to General William Alexander. He was accounted for at the Battles of New York, Trenton, Monmouth, Valley Forge and Germantown. After a strenuous two years of combat, Monroe resigned and attempted to create a Virginia regiment under his command, but failed due to lack of sufficient funds (America The Beautiful).
Burg, David F. Chicago’s White City of 1893. Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1976.
The community of Oak Forest, Il., lies in southwest Cook County approximately 27 miles south of Chicago. The town is less than half an hour from Chicago Midway International Airport and under an hour from O’Hare International Airport. The Rock Island Railroad metro provides commuter rail service from Oak Forest to Chicago. Interstates 57, 80 and 294 are accessible from the city.
Currently, Will County consists of a number of townships, which include Channahon, Crete, Custer, DuPage, Florence, Frankfort, Green Garden, Homer, Jackson, Joliet, Lockport, Manhattan, Monee, New Lenox, Peotone, Plainfield, Reed, Troy, Washington, Wesley, Wheatland, Will, Wilmington, and Wilton. Among these townships, the county encompasses a number of cities. The towns and cities that lie in the boundaries of the county include parts of Aurora, Beecher, parts of Bolingbrook, Braidwood, Channahon, parts of Coal City, Crest Hill, Crete, parts of Diamond, Elwood, Frankfort, Godley, Homer Glen, Joliet, parts of Lemont, Lockport, Manhattan, parts of Minooka, Mokena, Monee, parts of Naperville, New Lenox, parts of Orland Park, parts of Park Forest, Peotone, Plainfield, Rockdale, Romeoville, parts of Sauk Village, Shorewood, Steger, Symerton, parts of Tinley Park, parts of University Park, Wilmington, and Woodridge; not to mention a handful of unincorporated areas including Andres, Crystal Lawns, Pue, Fairmont, Frankfort Square, Goodings Grove, Goodenow, Ingalls Park, Lakewood Shores, Preston Heights, Ridge...
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A big issue Monroe tried to act on was British impressments, which is the practice of capturing U.S. sailors and making them serve in the British navy. This caused a slight rift between President Jefferson, Secretary of State Madison, and Monroe, after the two didn’t see the means of signing a treaty that Monroe thought would make the relationship between the two countries better. Monroe finally came to an understanding, repairing the broken bond between the three friends (Minister to France and Britain). This would pay off when newly appointed President James Madison would give the position of Secretary of State to James Monroe (Secretary of State and Secretary of War).
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Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turner. The Western Heritage. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.