Springfield, Illinois
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/86103
- Note
- "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 116,250 at the 2010 U.S. Census, which makes it the state´s sixth most-populous city, the second largest outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the largest in central Illinois. As of the 2020 census, the city´s population was 114,394 with approximately 208,000 residents living 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." - (en.wikipedia.org 15.09.2022) - Latitude
- 39.801719665527
- Longitude
- -89.643707275391
- Population
- 116,565
- Elevation
- 182
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