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Springfield is the capital of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County, and with 114,394 residents at the 2020 census it is the most populous city in Central Illinois and the seventh-most populous in the state.

Springfield was founded on April 10, 1821, received its town incorporation in 1832 and its city charter on February 3, 1840.

Springfield became the Illinois state capital in 1837, a move from Vandalia engineered largely by a young Abraham Lincoln and his tall legislative allies known as the 'Long Nine.'

Abraham Lincoln lived and practiced law in Springfield from 1837 until he left for the White House in 1861, and the city still brands itself the 'Home of President Abraham Lincoln.'

The Lincoln Home National Historic Site preserves the two-story Greek Revival house at Eighth and Jackson that was the only home Lincoln ever owned, where he lived from 1844 to 1861.

Lincoln delivered his famous 'House Divided' speech at Springfield's Old State Capitol in 1858 and gave his farewell address to the city from the Great Western Railroad depot in 1861.

Lincoln is buried with his wife and three of their children in the Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery, a monument dedicated in 1874 in what is often described as the second-most visited cemetery in America after Arlington National Cemetery.

The dome of the current Illinois State Capitol rises about 405 feet, taller than the dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Springfield's Dana-Thomas House, built in 1902 for Susan Lawrence Dana, is one of Frank Lloyd Wright's largest and best-preserved Prairie-style designs, with 35 rooms and some 250 art-glass windows.

Springfield has about 51,000 households averaging only 2.15 people each, and roughly 64% of its homes are owner-occupied.