Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Monmouth, IL

Monmouth is the county seat of Warren County in western Illinois, at the crossroads of U.S. Routes 34 and 67.

Monmouth was settled around 1824 and established in 1831 — the town was nearly named Kosciusko, a name drawn out of a hat, before founders decided it was too hard to spell and chose Monmouth, suggested by a resident from Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Monmouth is known regionally as the "Maple City."

Legendary Old West lawman Wyatt Earp was born in Monmouth on March 19, 1848, years before the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral made him famous.

Ronald Reagan also lived in Monmouth as a young child, when his father worked as a shoe salesman at the E. B. Colwell Department Store.

Monmouth College, a private Presbyterian liberal arts college founded in 1853, is the city's second-largest employer and one of its defining institutions.

Monmouth College is the birthplace of two pioneering women's fraternities — Pi Beta Phi, founded in 1867 as the first national secret society for women modeled on men's Greek-letter fraternities, and Kappa Kappa Gamma, founded in 1870.

Monmouth had a population of 8,902 in the 2020 census, down from 9,444 in 2010.

Monmouth had 3,388 households in the 2020 census.

Monmouth hosts the Prime Beef Festival every year during the week after Labor Day, kicked off by one of the largest parades in western Illinois.