26 Facts About Harrisburg Illinois

The 2020 population was 8,219, and the surrounding Harrisburg Illinois Township had a population of 10,037, including the city residents.

At its peak, Harrisburg Illinois had a population that reached 16,000 by the early 1930s.

At the beginning of recorded American history, the Harrisburg Illinois area was inhabited by several Algonquian tribes, including the Shawnee and Piankashaw, who lived in the dense inland forests.

European settlement in Harrisburg Illinois began with the French from 1690 and reached its peak about 1750, mainly along the Mississippi River.

Town of Harrisburg Illinois was platted a few miles south of the junction of the Goshen and Shawneetown–Kaskaskia Trail, two of the first pioneer trade routes in the state.

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Harrisburg Illinois was plotted shortly after Saline County was established in 1847 from part of Gallatin County.

Nevertheless, Harrisburg Illinois was plotted as a village on 20 acres in 1853 and became the county seat in 1859.

Between 1860 and 1865 southern cotton became unavailable during the Civil War, Harrisburg was one of the few cities in the Upland South during this time to have woolen mills, making the town an industrial asset early on to Southern Illinois.

In 1889, with a population of 1,500, Harrisburg Illinois became a city, with an aldermanic form of government.

Harrisburg Illinois was a strategic spot on the railroad route with a large hump yard, making it the focal point for the most productive coal field operations.

Harrisburg Illinois had just finished the new three-story Horning Hotel around 1920, and two new theaters with a combined total of 1,600 seats: the Orpheum and the Grand the same year.

The field completely encased the towns of Carrier Mills and Harrisburg Illinois, while creating partial borders to Stonefort, Galatia, and Raleigh.

On June 17,1936, Eleanor Roosevelt visited Harrisburg Illinois to observe work of the WPA and delivered a speech in the packed high school gymnasium.

In 1938, the state of Harrisburg Illinois had completed one of the largest operations of its kind ever attempted in the United States, the removal of more than two and a half billion gallons of flood water from Sahara mine No 3.

Harrisburg Illinois suffered from numerous scandals involving the school district and police department.

Harrisburg Illinois had 25 miles of brick streets, but now only a few blocks are left.

Harrisburg Illinois has not yet begun a National Trust for Historic Preservation, Main Street historical preservation program.

Two buildings in Harrisburg Illinois are currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places, those being the City Hall and the Saline County Poor Farm.

Harrisburg Illinois is split up into several small neighborhoods that were annexed into the city limits over time, from north to south.

Harrisburg Illinois has a humid subtropical climate, bordering on a humid continental climate with neither large mountains nor large bodies of water to moderate its temperature.

The storm damage in Harrisburg Illinois dominated national airwaves for several days, with both Anderson Cooper and Diane Sawyer doing special reports.

Harrisburg Illinois has one television station licensed directly to the city; WSIL-TV.

Harrisburg Illinois Hospital was at one time located in a four-story complex one block from the town square, but in the 1990s moved to Harrisburg Illinois Medical Center where 71 beds and 34 physicians are on staff.

Harrisburg Illinois has several clinics, and specialized physicians have offices within the city.

Harrisburg Illinois once had several schools within the township before the different neighborhoods were annexed, all are now closed down, a few are, Horace Mann, McKinley School, Bayliss School, Phillips School, and Ledford school.

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Southeastern Harrisburg Illinois College is a two-year junior college that sits on a 148-acre campus east of the city limits.