Ste. Marie, IL

Ste. Marie is a village in Illinois. The 2020 census counted 238 residents. Marie or Sainte Marie is a village in Jasper County, Illinois, United States, along the Embarras River. In the early 1800s, some French had become greatly concerned and dismayed by the effects on the Catholic Church from the French Revolution and the attacks by unbelieving philosophers. Marie's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Illinois setting. The local scoop is how Ste. Marie's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Some families, including the Picquets, began to consider emigrating in order to establish elsewhere a new social order based on the principles of the Gospel. Marie is located in southeastern Jasper County. Marie is 9 miles southeast of Newton, the county seat.