Collinsville

The city of Collinsville resides in both Madison County and St. Clair County. In 1800, Ephraim Connor settled in the area that would become Collinsville, making him the first American settler of what would become Madison County.((History of Madison County, Illinois, Illustrated. With Biographical Sketches of many Prominent Men and Pioneers (Edwardsville: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), 454.)) Collinsville was officially incorporated February 15, 1855,((Flagg, James S., editor, Our 150 Years, 1812-1962. (Edwardsville: East 10 Publishing, 1962.), 61.)) and by 1880 the population of Collinsville reached 2,887 inhabitants.((Statistics of the Population of the United States at the Tenth Census (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883), 139.)) Collinsville is home to the world’s largest ketchup bottle and is the world’s horseradish capital. As of the 2010 census, the city of Collinsville has a population of 25,579.((Illinois: 2010, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, 2010 Census of Population and Housing (Washington: Bureau of the Census, 2012), 118.))

Collinsville in 2017
From the Maps & Plats GIS Division of the Madison County Chief County Assessment Office

To access the city of Collinsville’s website, follow this link.

For more, see these Oral Histories

• Pat Childers Oral History Interview
• Elizabeth Christian Oral History Interview
• Philip Rarick Oral History Interview

Collinsville Articles (8 Total)

	Collinsville Community Unit School District #10 February 14, 2017 by Lesley Thomson
	Horseradish in Collinsville December 19, 2017 by Angela Little
	Lynching of Robert Prager (1918) March 9, 2018 by Peter Stehman
	Price v. Philip Morris April 26, 2018 by Angela Little
	Route 66 in Madison County April 9, 2018 by Cheryl Eichar Jett
	Southwestern Illinois Inter-City Baseball League June 4, 2020 by Shannan Mason
	St. Louis Smelting and Refining Company in Collinsville March 16, 2020 by Shannan Mason

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