Bond County, Illinois

203 W College Ave
Greenville, IL 62246
Phone: (618) 664-0449
Fax: (618) 664-9414

In south-central IL northeast of Belleville; organized Jan 4, 1817 (prior to statehood) from Madison County. Name Origin: For Shadrach Bond (1773-1832), IL legislator and first governor (1818-22)

Area (sq mi):: 382.67 (land 380.20; water 2.46) Population per square mile: 47.40
Population 2005: 18,027 State rank: 63 Population change: 2000-20005 2.20%; 1990-2000 17.60% Population 2000: 17,633 (White 89.80%; Black or African American 7.40%; Hispanic or Latino 1.40%; Asian 0.30%; Other 1.60%). Foreign born: 0.80%. Median age: 36.80
Income 2000: per capita $17,947; median household $37,680; Population below poverty level: 9.30% Personal per capita income (2000-2003): $23,380-$24,306
Unemployment (2004): 6.70% Unemployment change (from 2000): 1.70% Median travel time to work: 24.30 minutes Working outside county of residence: 45.60%

Cities with population over 10,000: None

See other counties in Illinois.

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She later became art supervisor at the Effingham and Bond County Schools and a member of the extension and workshop faculty of Eastern Illinois State College.

Ella Elizabeth Hise Museum of Regional Art opens Museum

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) conducted cleanup work at three open dump sites, including the former Sorento Junk Yard, in Sorento (Bond County).

Illinois EPA conducts cleanup work at three open dumps sites in state

Collections from Bond County in 1956 and Macoupin County during 1947 each included slider, painted, snapping, common musk and spiny softshell turtles (http://ellipse.inhs .uiuc.edu:591/INHSCollections/herpsearch; accessed 5 Sep 2008).

Turtles of Bond, Macoupin and Montgomery counties, Illinois, 2006-2008

In Bond County, Ill., Sheriff Jeffrey Brown has an interesting reaction when someone asks to see a list of prisoners in his jail.

In the Land of Lincoln, public records in chains

Sayles, 28, of Belleville, was arrested May 9 by the Randolph County Sheriff's Office on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear on a retail theft charge and a Bond County warrant for failure to appear on a deceptive practice charge.

Randolph County sheriff's blotter

Kevin Kaegy from the Bond County Historical Society will deliver a presentation at 1 p.m.

Vandalia Statehouse to celebrate Lincoln's birthday

30, 1992 in Bond County, and the original revocation was for driving under the influence of alcohol or drug in violation of driving while driver's license or privilege to operate a vehicle was suspended or revoked.

Cases filed

3, Higgins again turned herself in at the police department, and was arrested on a Bond County warrant for failure to appear -- contempt of court, an unspecified complaint.

Police blotter

Teen instructors included Kate Miller of Hamilton County, Anne Becker of Morgan County, and Megan Miller of Bond County who have initiated hunger projects in their communities, as well as other Hamilton County club members who have used their community garden produce in their youth cooking schools.

Teens inspired to fight hunger

Peters, Bond County; Robin Kindberg, Boone County; Karl and Beth Schultz, Bureau County; Terry Bocker, Carroll County; Evelyn Anderson, Cass County; Kathy Mullins, Champaign County; and Bill and Wendy Harmon, Christian County.

4-H honors Stewart for service

By an act of the legislature in the year 1821, Bond County, IL, which was a huge area, was divided into two parts; the southern part remained Bond County and the northern part became Montgomery County.

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