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Illinois, United States
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Jacksonville, city, seat (1825) of Morgan county, west-central Illinois, U.S. It lies about 35 miles (55 km) west of Springfield. Laid out in 1825 as the county seat by Johnston Shelton, the county surveyor, and named in honour of U.S. President Andrew Jackson (some have also said that the city’s name honours a prominent African American preacher named A.W. Jackson), it soon acquired a distinctive educational, institutional, and religious character that it largely retains. Illinois...

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