MORGAN COUNTY POPULATION: 35,547 INTERESTING FACTS: Named for Revolutionary war figure Daniel Morgan. Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln often served as lawyers in Morgan County. Two of the oldest colleges in the midwest, Illinois College founded in 1829 and MacMurray College founded in 1846, are located here. The first president of IL College was Edward …
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