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Springfield, IL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Springfield a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Springfield Home page. The Springfield Home page provides as much information as possible on Springfield. Knowing Springfield’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Springfield’s Home page, you will also find Springfield’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Springfield has a population of 162348. 47.5% of Springfield’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.5 are female. 40% of Springfield is married and 62.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $130,913, and the average rent is $820. Household median income in Springfield is $54,164, and the individual median income is $32,868. Springfield’s Ethnic is the following: White(72.3%), Black(20.1%), Multiple(4.1%), Hispanic(3.1%), Asian(3%), Other(0.3%), Native(0.2%), Pacific(0.1%).
Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh most-populous city, the second largest outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the largest in central Illinois.
Approximately 208,000 residents live in the Springfield metropolitan area.Springfield was settled by European-Americans in the late 1810s, around the time Illinois became a state. The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President of the United States.
Major tourist attractions include multiple sites connected with Lincoln including the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices State Historic Site, and the Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery. Springfield lies in a valley and plain near the Sangamon River.
Lake Springfield, a large artificial lake owned by the City Water, Light & Power company (CWLP), supplies the city with recreation and drinking water. Weather is fairly typical for middle latitude locations, with four distinct seasons including hot summers and cold winters. Spring and summer weather is like that of most Midwestern cities; thunderstorms may occur in late spring.
Lying in Downstate Illinois, a part of Tornado Alley, tornadoes have hit the region on a few occasions. The city has a mayor–council form of government and governs the Capital Township. The government of the state of Illinois is based in Springfield. State government institutions include the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor of Illinois.
There are three public and three private high schools in Springfield. Public schools in Springfield are operated by District No. 186. Springfield's economy is dominated by government jobs, plus the related lobbyists and firms that deal with the state and county governments and justice system, and health care and medicine.
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