Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in White Hall, IL

White Hall is a small city in Greene County in west-central Illinois, and it was officially established in 1836.

A post office called White Hall has been in operation since 1827, years before the town itself was established.

White Hall got its name from James Allen's long, white tavern, the only hotel between Carrollton and Jacksonville, because stagecoach drivers approaching it would call out, "Next stop, the White Hall."

David Barrow was the first person to build on the future town site in 1830, and two years later he bought another 80 acres for $200 for the purpose of creating the town.

White Hall became known far and wide for pottery: between 1825 and 1948 the town supported 39 commercial potteries, thanks to the exceptional quality of the local clay that potter John Neff Ebey began working in the 1820s.

Stoneware from A. D. Ruckel's White Hall Pottery Works and the White Hall Sewer Pipe and Stoneware Company remains well known to collectors today.

White Hall's population peaked at 3,082 in 1950 and has declined slowly ever since, reaching 2,295 at the 2020 census.

White Hall had 945 households at the 2020 census, and more than a third of them were made up of people living alone.

The White Hall Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

White Hall's long NOAA weather record shows striking extremes for a small Illinois city, with a record high of 113 degrees Fahrenheit and a record low of minus 26 degrees.