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The lawyers gathered at the Mt. Vernon Inn, owned by Angus McNeil Grant and his in-laws, the Andersons. This building has been on the National Register of Historic Places since July 2, 1973. [9] In the 1870s, Mt. Vernon for a time prohibited the sale of alcohol. A village called "East Mt. Vernon" was organized in 1877 to allow the sale of alcohol.
Mount Vernon Township is one of sixteen townships in Jefferson County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 13,374 and it contained 6,422 housing units. As of the 2010 census, its population was 13,374 and it contained 6,422 housing units.
Of the 15,365 households, 30.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.0% were married couples living together, 11.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 34.0% were non-families, and 29.1% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.92.
The Register-News traced its origin back to 1884, when the Mt. Vernon Daily Register was launched. The Mt. Vernon Daily News was founded in 1891, and the two papers merged in 1920 to create the Register-News, which published six days a week until cost-saving measures were employed in 2017 that reduced the newspaper to printing just three days a ...
The Mount Vernon, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county in southern Illinois, anchored by the city of Mount Vernon. As of the 2010 census , this micropolitan statistical area had a population of 47,284, a decline of 1,382 from the 2000 census count of 48,666.
Vernon is located in northwestern Marion County. U.S. Route 51 passes through the village, leading south 3 miles (5 km) to Patoka and north 11 miles (18 km) to Vandalia. Salem, the Marion county seat, is 18 miles (29 km) to the southeast. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Vernon has a total area of 0.88 square miles (2.28 km 2), all land. [2]
On October 29, 1955, [4] the voters of the district approved establishing a junior college to accompany the high school. Mt. Vernon Community College operated on the high school campus and several adjacent buildings until its expansion as Rend Lake College (a part of the Illinois Community College System) and its 1970 relocation to its present main campus in Ina, Illinois. [5]
Vernon Township is a township in Lake County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census , its population was 67,095. [ 2 ] The name "Vernon Township" comes from George Washington's estate, Mount Vernon .