After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they formalized their community (called “Bluffs”) as a county, and in 1825, petitioned the Illinois ...
If voters approve the Village of Ewbanks on April 17, it would be the first village formed in Adams County since 1896. According to records in the Adams County Clerk's office, Quincy was the first ...