Carlinville, Il is a historic small town that sits right on historic Route 66. It lies about 40 miles southwest of Springfield. The first settlement on the site, in an area known as Black Hawk hunting ground (frequented by Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo Indians), was made about 1815. The community was founded in 1828 and named for Governor Thomas Carlin. A notable feature of the city is the “million-dollar” Macoupin County Courthouse (completed 1870), a limestone structure with an imposing 191-foot dome. The city’s Standard Addition neighborhood, dating from 1918, is home to 152 Sears, Roebuck and Company kit homes—the largest concentration of such homes in the United States.

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