Dahlgren, IL

Dahlgren is a village in Hamilton County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 504 residents. Dahlgren is part of the Mount Vernon Micropolitan Statistical Area. The area around present-day Dahlgren was known in the 1860s as the Shelton Precinct in Hamilton County before townships were formally established. Dahlgren is governed by a non-partisan village president and six-member non-partisan Board of Trustees, half of whom are elected to staggered four-year terms in odd-numbered years. Steve Wilkerson was re-elected village president in 2017. The short version is that Dahlgren carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now.

That is the local read on Dahlgren: its past remains attached to the places people use now. " Construction of the railroad commenced in 1870 and was completed through the area in late 1871. Illinois Route 142 passes through the village, leading southeast 11 miles to McLeansboro, the county seat, and northwest 15 miles to Mount Vernon. Dahlgren is home to local railroad section boss.