[{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/union-county-courthouse-illinois-wikipedia\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/union-county-courthouse-illinois-wikipedia\/","headline":"Union County Courthouse (Illinois) – Wikipedia","name":"Union County Courthouse (Illinois) – Wikipedia","description":"before-content-x4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia after-content-x4 Local government building in the United States after-content-x4 Front, pictured three months after","datePublished":"2022-09-21","dateModified":"2022-09-21","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/author\/lordneo\/#Person","name":"lordneo","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/author\/lordneo\/","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c9645c498c9701c88b89b8537773dd7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c9645c498c9701c88b89b8537773dd7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/03\/Union_County_Courthouse_in_Jonesboro.jpg\/250px-Union_County_Courthouse_in_Jonesboro.jpg","url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/03\/Union_County_Courthouse_in_Jonesboro.jpg\/250px-Union_County_Courthouse_in_Jonesboro.jpg","height":"333","width":"250"},"url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/union-county-courthouse-illinois-wikipedia\/","wordCount":1553,"articleBody":"     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});before-content-x4From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Local government building in the United States         (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Front, pictured three months after openingThe Union County Courthouse is a government building in central Jonesboro, the county seat of Union County, Illinois, United States.  Built in 2013, it replaced a brick structure whose core predated the Civil War.Table of ContentsEarly history[edit]Jonesboro and Anna[edit]Architectural history[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Early history[edit]Civilization first reached the vicinity of Union County by means of a French expedition under Jolliet and Marquette in 1673; they are unlikely to have landed within Union County’s current boundaries, but they are known to have explored the lower end of the Upper Mississippi River.[1]:\u200a264\u200a  The first settlement, consisting of two families who built cabins near the present site of Jonesboro in 1803, was followed by a second settlement in the American Bottom in 1805, at which time the area was yet part of Johnson County.[1]:\u200a266\u200a  Hills in the area attracted some settlement in 1811 by refugees from the New Madrid Earthquake seeking stable ground,[1]:\u200a283\u200a but even at the end of the War of 1812, the white man was much less numerous than the red in this part of the Illinois Territory.[1]:\u200a268\u200a  Union County was formed by a law of January 1818, which specified the location at which the county officials should meet before selecting a county seat.[1]:\u200a285\u200a  Just two months later, the officials accepted the donation of land at the present site of Jonesboro, and a rude log courthouse was quickly erected by one Thomas Cox.  Although the frontiersmen advocated for such a simple building, holding that justice could be dispensed equally in primitive buildings and grand, a frame courthouse was built in 1820 to replace the original.[2]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Jonesboro and Anna[edit]Jonesboro flourished into the 1850s, but the construction of the Illinois Central Railroad posed a new challenge: the company’s engineers requested a plat map of the community, but none being furnished, they bypassed the county seat by a mile, and the new community of Anna was established between Jonesboro and the railroad line.  Improved transportation caused Anna to prosper,[2] and it began to challenge Jonesboro for prominence in Union County.  After an unsuccessful attempt to provide for a county-seat vote in 1868 via the state legislature, Anna partisans petitioned the county court for redress in 1870, but their petition was rejected, and the challenge gradually subsided.[1]:\u200a316\u200aArchitectural history[edit]By the mid-1830s, the frame courthouse of 1820 had become insufficient, and the county government ordered its removal and the construction of a brick replacement on the same lot;[2] the project was completed in 1838 at a cost of $5,000.  Although the building was quite fine for the period, it was left altogether unmaintained, and the necessity of constructing a fourth courthouse began to appear before the eyes of the county officials.[1]:\u200a360\u200a  The General Assembly passed an act in early 1853 permitting Union County to borrow $5,000 for construction (not many years after a similar act had permitted the county to borrow $1,000 to repair the previous building),[1]:\u200a317\u200a and the replacement building opened in 1858 at a final cost of $12,000.[1]:\u200a360\u200a  Two stories tall with a taller central section, the building featured a small tower atop the stepped facade.  In 1963, the county expanded the building by adding a two-story stone section to each side.[2]  Despite these additions, the county outgrew the building within half a century, forcing some departments to use offices in other buildings, and more than $10 million in bonds was issued in 2012 to enable the construction of a replacement and the demolition of the old building.  Its architects were the St. Louis office of HOK.[3]  The replacement opened in August 2013.[4]References[edit]^ a b c d e f g h i Perrin, William H., ed.  History of Alexander, Union, and Pulaski counties, Illinois.  Chicago: Baskin, 1883.^ a b c d Weiser, Dennis.  Illinois courthouses: an illustrated history.  Virginia Beach: Donning, 2009, 144.^ Stewart, Brent.  “After 154 years…Union County will get modern courthouse, The Southern Illinoisan, 2012-05-31.  Accessed 2017-08-02.^ Malkovich, Becky.  “Union County welcomes new courthouse“, The Southern Illinoisan, 2013-08-25.  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