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Carlinville is a city in Macoupin County, Illinois, United States. The population was 5,685 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Macoupin County. It has the largest single concentration of Sears Catalog Homes in the United States. Carlinville is the home of Blackburn College, known for its policy that has all students working on campus, many in leadership positions.
History
The county courthouse was built in 1870, and was designed by Elijah E. Myers, who subsequently designed the Michigan State Capitol, the Texas State Capitol, and the Colorado State Capitol.
In 1918, Standard Oil of Indiana purchased a large group of the Sears houses for its mineworkers in Carlinville, at a cost of approximately *]1 million. Today 152 of the original 156 homes still exist, the largest single repository of Sears Catalog Homes in the United States.
The American entomologist Charles Robertson was a native of Carlinville, and there carried out what is still the single most intensive study of the flower-visiting insects of a single locality, culminating in a 221-page book self-published in 1928 under the title Flowers and Insects. From among the specimens he collected in the process of doing this study, he named over 100 new species of bees and wasps, one of which - the andrenid bee Andrena lauracea, described in 1897 - is known only from two female specimens, both collected on spicebush in Carlinville. Amazingly, the two specimens were collected some 90 years apart, the second being collected in 1985, long after the species was presumed to be extinct.
Geography
Carlinville is located at (39.281379, -89.880993).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.2 km² (2.4 mi²), all land.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 5,685 people, 2,125 households, and 1,393 families residing in the city. The population density was 922/km² (2,390/mi²). There were 2,289 housing units at an average density of 371.3/km² (962.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 97.01% White, 1.50% African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.26% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.23% from other races, and 0.74% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.76% of the population.
There were 2,125 households out of which 31.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.3% were married couples living together, 11.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.4% were non-families. 30.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.96.
In the city the population was spread out with 23.4% under the age of 18, 12.8% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 19.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 89.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $34,259, and the median income for a family was $39,693. Males had a median income of $35,137 versus $21,286 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,663. About 9.0% of families and 12.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.3% of those under age 18 and 14.6% of those age 65 or over.
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