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Assumption is a small city in Christian County, Illinois, that began in 1852 as a station called Tacusah on the Illinois Central Railroad.

In 1856, French-Canadian Patriote leader Edouard-Elisee Malhiot, then living in exile in Louisiana, founded a settlement near the station that attracted about 50 French-Canadian emigrant families.

Malhiot named his settlement L'Assomption after Assumption Parish, Louisiana, and the post office name became Assumption in 1858.

Assumption was incorporated as a city in 1876.

Assumption claims the deepest coal mine in Illinois, a mine reaching more than 1,000 feet below the surface that was abandoned in the 1930s.

The First National Bank of Assumption, founded in 1900, claims to be the oldest bank in Christian County and was the only bank in the county to remain open during the Great Depression.

Assumption's population peaked at 1,918 in 1910 during its coal era; the 2020 census counted 1,155 residents.

Assumption had 520 households and 576 housing units in the 2020 census.

Since 1992, Assumption has been served by the Central A&M School District, and both Central A&M Middle School and Bond Elementary School are located in the city.

Assumption is home to Kemmerer Village, a Presbyterian childcare agency that opened in 1914 as an orphan home on 400 acres that donor Philip Kemmerer willed in 1884 to 'the orphans and friendless poor of all denominations.'