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Mount Morris is a village in Ogle County in north-central Illinois, known by the motto "Let Freedom Ring" because it is home to the Illinois Freedom Bell, which hangs in the town square.

The town square where the Freedom Bell stands was once the campus of Mount Morris College, one of the first institutes of higher learning in Illinois, founded as a Methodist school and later affiliated with the Church of the Brethren before closing during hard economic times.

Mount Morris has long been known as a publishing and printing center - the Kable News Company, once a major national magazine distributor, was based in the village, and its building is a local landmark.

The village has 18 Lustron houses - prefabricated enameled-steel homes from the late 1940s - clustered on First Street, Hannah Avenue and Sunset Lane, built to ease a housing shortage for workers at the local printing company.

Mount Morris's post office opened in 1846, and the village had 2,861 residents at the 2020 census.

At the 2000 census, Mount Morris had 3,013 people living in 1,259 households, an average of about 2.4 people per home.

Mount Morris's school district was merged into the neighboring Oregon School District in 1993 after the old junior high school burned while being demolished, and the former Mount Morris High School building now serves as the district's middle school.

The village covers about 1.5 square miles in Mount Morris Township and sits at roughly 920 feet above sea level, high ground for northern Illinois.

Mount Morris is the fourth most populous community in Ogle County, whose seat is the nearby city of Oregon along the Rock River.

Mount Morris was the birthplace of Ralph Waldo Trine, the influential New Thought philosopher and author of the 1897 bestseller "In Tune with the Infinite," and of artist and poet Akiane Kramarik.