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Shiloh is a village in St. Clair County in southwestern Illinois, part of the Metro East area across the Mississippi River from St. Louis.

Shiloh's first settlers, the three Scott brothers and their wives, arrived in 1802 and established a grist and powder mill on a branch of Silver Creek; the powder mill is considered the first in Illinois.

The area was long known as Three Springs, for the three spring-fed streams that converge there.

In April 1807 the site hosted an 11-day Methodist revival camp meeting organized by the Reverend William McKendree, the first camp meeting in St. Clair County and possibly the second in the Illinois Country.

The log Shiloh Meeting House built after that revival was the first Methodist church in St. Clair County, and its congregation became the longest continuously organized United Methodist church in Illinois; the village and township took their name from it.

Shiloh is the site of Scott Air Force Base, a major employer in the Metro East and a key driver of the village's modern growth.

Shiloh is also the eastern terminus of the St. Louis area's MetroLink Red Line, at the Shiloh-Scott station serving the air base.

Thanks largely to the base, Shiloh boomed from around 1,000 residents in 1980 to 14,098 at the 2020 census.

Census Bureau estimates put Shiloh at about 5,800 households averaging about 2.4 people each, including roughly 1,600 military veterans.

Shiloh's red-and-white-striped water tower, which looks like a giant peppermint, was actually designed as a safety measure for aircraft flying in and out of Scott Air Force Base.