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Counties and County Seats of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, 1839–61 County County Seat 1839–41 1841–42 1843–45 1845–47 1847–53 1853–57 1857–61 Christian (originally Dane County) Taylorville DeWitt Clinton Livingston Pontiac Logan Postville (1839–47) Mt. Pulaski (1847–54) Lincoln(1854–present) Macon Decatur McLean Bloomington Menard Petersburg Sangamon Springfield Tazewell Tremont (1839–51) Pekin (1851–present) Champaign Urbana Mason Havana Moultrie Sullivan Piatt Monticello Shelby Shelbyville Woodford Versailles (1841–43) Metamora (1843–96) Eureka(1896–present) Edgar Paris Vermilion Danville Source: Compiled from Martha L. Banner, Cullom Davis, eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln, Complete Documentary Edition, DVD (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2000); Jesse White, Origins and Evolution of Illinois Counties (Springfield: Secretary of State, State of Illinois, 2006). ...

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