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Knox County was named in honor of Henry Knox, the first US Secretary of War. [3] The first "Knox County" in what today is Illinois was unrelated to the modern incarnation. In 1790, the land of the Indiana Territory that was to become Illinois was divided into two counties: St. Clair and Knox. The latter included land in what was to become Indiana.
Knoxville was the county seat until 1873, when the county seat was moved to Galesburg. The first Knox County Courthouse, completed in 1839, and second Knox County jail, completed in 1845, still stand in Knoxville and are registered on the National Register of Historic Places. The two buildings and Knoxville's first general store, the Sanburn ...
The Knox County seat moved to Galesburg in 1873; the courthouse and hall of records subsequently housed the Knoxville city hall and public library respectively until 1978, when the city government moved to the hall and the courthouse became a museum. [2] The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 13, 1992. [1]
Knox County Sheriff Tom Spangler and the sheriff's office highly publicized the spoils of the September 2021 raid on a suspected catalytic converter theft ring.
The sheriff's office was dispatched to the 1900 block of West Knox Road, the overpass of U.S. 34 where a driver complained of concrete being thrown from the bridge. ... While on scene, the Knox ...
Galesburg is a city in Knox County, Illinois, United States.The city is 45 miles (72 km) northwest of Peoria.At the 2010 census, its population was 32,195. [4] It is the county seat of Knox County [5] and the principal city of the Galesburg Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Knox and Warren counties.
Alfred Marion Craig (January 15, 1832 – September 6, 1911) was an American judge from Illinois. Born and raised in the state, he was first elected as Knox County judge before he was named to the Illinois Supreme Court in 1873. Craig served three nine-year terms there, as Chief Justice four times. [1]
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