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Marshall is the county seat of Clark County in east-central Illinois, about 20 miles west of Terre Haute, Indiana, near the Indiana state line.

Marshall was platted on October 3, 1835, by Colonel William B. Archer and Joseph Duncan and named for John Marshall, the recently deceased Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The town was laid out along the National Road, the first federal highway in the United States, and most of its lots fronted the road to form what is now Archer Avenue, its main street.

Marshall became the Clark County seat in 1837, succeeding the Wabash River town of Darwin.

Marshall was incorporated on May 14, 1873.

The 2020 census counted 3,947 people in Marshall.

Marshall had 1,737 households at the 2020 census.

The Archer House Hotel in Marshall is the oldest continually operated hotel in Illinois and one of seven sites in the city listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

During the Civil War, in March 1863, Marshall drew national attention when a local judge freed arrested Union deserters and 250 federal soldiers surrounded the courthouse to free two arrested sergeants and seize the judge.

From 1950 to 1964 Marshall hosted the Handy Writers' Colony, and novelist James Jones, author of From Here to Eternity, built a home and lived in Marshall during the 1950s.