Nearing Harvest In Sangamon County, Illinois
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Sangamon County, located in central Illinois, is blessed with some of the world’s richest farmland. There are over 1,000 farms in the county engaged in the farming of over a half-million acres of land. Illinois is the nation’s second leading exporter of corn, soybeans, feed grains and related products.
The population of Sangamon County at the 2020 census was 196,343. Springfield, the Capitol city of the State of Illinois, also is the seat of Sangamon County.