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Pittsfield, IL - History
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Welcome to the Pittsfield Home page. The Pittsfield Home page provides as much information as possible on Pittsfield. Knowing Pittsfield’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Pittsfield’s Home page, you will also find Pittsfield’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Pittsfield has a population of 4215. 46.1% of Pittsfield’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.9 are female. 43.6% of Pittsfield is married and 77.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $89,945, and the average rent is $570. Household median income in Pittsfield is $38,573, and the individual median income is $26,849. Pittsfield’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.1%), Black(2.7%), Hispanic(1.4%), Multiple(0.5%), Other(0.4%), Asian(0.2%).
Pittsfield was initially settled by settlers from New England. These settlers were of old Yankee stock, descended from the English Puritans who had founded and settled New England in the 1600s. A group of settlers from Pittsfield, Massachusetts headed west and settled this region of Illinois in 1820.
When they arrived the area was a virgin wilderness, they constructed farms, roads and government buildings.As county seat, the town was one of the various places in central Illinois where Abraham Lincoln practiced law as part of the circuit court, working on 34 cases between 1839 and 1852. One local newspaper, now known as the Pike Press, was then owned by another of Lincoln's future secretaries, John Nicolay, and featured an editorial containing one of the first known suggestions of Lincoln as the Republican nominee for the presidency.
Pittsfield was also home to John Hay, Lincoln's personal secretary, ambassador to England under President William McKinley, later Secretary of State for Theodore Roosevelt and creator of the Open Door Policy. Pittsfield is the self-proclaimed "Pork Capital" of the Midwest, owing to the long history of pork production in the region, which fed into the large meat-packing industry of Chicago.
Though agriculture in the region is no longer so dependent on pork, the town still hosts a yearly "Pig Days" festival. The local high school football team, the Saukees, still holds the record for longest winning streak in the state, and the 21st longest in the country. Starting with their season opening 6–0 win over North Greene in 1966, the Pittsfield Saukees reeled off 64 consecutive wins, which included 15 straight shutouts between 1969 and 1971.
In 1970, the team outscored their opponents 341-0 and allowed negative rushing yards for the season. The streak extended all the way through to the second game of the 1973 season, when Pittsfield dropped a 12-0 decision to Winchester, Illinois.Pittsfield's Saukees basketball team won the Illinois State basketball title in 1991 under Coach David T.
Bennett, who was later installed into the Illinois Basketball Hall of Fame. Exactly 20 years later in 2011, the Saukees would return to the Illinois State basketball court and take home the 4th place title under Coach Brad Tomhave.Pittsfield is the setting for Jamie Gilson's book Hello, My Name is Scrambled Eggs.
Singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens wrote a song about Pittsfield on his album The Avalanche.
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