{"id":1197,"date":"2017-12-11T20:42:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2017-12-17T17:06:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T23:06:22","slug":"fairmont-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/fairmont-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairmont City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fairmont City is a village in both St. Clair and Madison counties. Incorporated between 1910 and 1920, by 1920 the village of Fairmont city had a population of 1,056.((<a href=\"https:\/\/census.gov\/library\/publications\/1931\/dec\/1930a-vol-01-population.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, Population Volume I<\/em><\/a> (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931), 316.)) The Hispanic population doubled between 1990 and 2000, growing from 27.9% in 1990 to 55.3% in 2000.((<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/publications\/1992\/dec\/cp-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>1990 Census of Population, General Population Characteristics: Illinois<\/em><\/a> (Washington: Bureau of the Census, 1992), 52;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/cen2000\/phc-1-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Illinois: 2000, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, 2000 Census of Population and Housing<\/em><\/a> (Washington: Bureau of the Census, 2002), 230)) As of the 2010 census, the village of Fairmont City has 2,635 residents, with 71.4%, or 1,882, Hispanic people.((<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/cen2010\/cph-1-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illinois: 2010, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, 2010 Census of Population and Housing<\/a> <\/em>(Washington: Bureau of the Census, 2012), 280.))<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/Communities\/Fairmont City.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-473 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Fairmont_City.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fairmont City in 2017<br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.madison.il.us\/departments\/information_technology\/geographic_spatial_data.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maps &amp; Plats GIS Division of the Madison County Chief County Assessment Office<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairmont City is a village in both St. Clair and Madison counties. Incorporated between 1910 and 1920, by 1920 the village of Fairmont city had a population of 1,056.((Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, Population Volume I (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931), 316.)) The Hispanic population doubled between 1990 and 2000, growing from 27.9% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"community.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"coauthors":[54,56],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}