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- The television show The Simpsons is set in a town generically named "Springfield", without indicating a state. Creator Matt Groening has suggested in interviews that he chose the name because of its ubiquity; the show's intentionally contradictory information about the location of the town prevents matching the fictional Springfield to a real one.
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Dec 18, 2015 · SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. Originally called Springfield for the nearby Spring Creek, the city was briefly renamed Calhoun in the 1820s, for politician John C. Calhoun.
Sep 21, 2023 · In 1837, Lincoln and a group of eight state legislators — known as the “Long Nine” for their commanding height — led the fight to move the capital to Springfield from Vandalia. Illinois’ capital had already moved once.
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Sep 19, 2024 · Springfield, city, seat (1821) of Sangamon county and capital of Illinois, U.S. Lying along the Sangamon River in the central part of the state, Springfield is situated about 100 miles (160 km) northeast of St. Louis, Missouri, and some 185 miles (300 km) southwest of Chicago.
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Springfield, Illinois, the one-time home of Abraham Lincoln, is the only U.S. state capital with the name. As of 2020, it had a population of 114,394. In the United States, there are four Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Areas in Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri and Ohio.
www.springfield.il.us. Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois and the seat of Sangamon County. The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh-most populous city, [ 10 ] the second-most populous outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the most populous in ...
•. Basically because people used to name cities after other cities, like how a lot of cities in the New England area are named after cities in England. The first Springfield in the US was Springfield, Massachusetts, itself named after Springfield, Essex.
Sep 26, 2022 · Besides being the state capital, Springfield is Central Illinois' largest city, the second-largest city outside Chicago Metropolitan Area, and the state's sixth-most populous city. The city served as the home of Abraham Lincoln - the 16th President of the United States.
