Jacksonville, Illinois

===1900 to present===
Between 1892 and 1910, Jacksonville was home to [[minor league baseball]], as the [[Jacksonville Jacks]] and Jacksonville Lunatics played in eight different minor leagues. Jacksonville teams played at League Park on Finley Street.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.statscrew.com/venues/v-1246 |title=League Park in Jacksonville, IL history and teams on StatsCrew.com |website=statscrew.com}}</ref>

In 1911 as part of the progressive movement, Jacksonville adopted the [[city commission government|city commission]] form of government, the first mayor being George W. Davis.<ref>{{cite news |title=Personal Points |date=April 5, 1912 |work=[[Rock Island Arg.|Rock Island Argus]] |page=5 (col. 3–4) |via=[[Chronicling America]] |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92053934/1912-04-05/ed-1/seq-5/ }}</ref>

In the summer of 1965, in order to keep up with customer demand for records by [[the Beatles]], the wildly popular English band,<ref>{{cite web |author=Wolf |url=http://www.beatlelinks.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-7289.html |title=1960s press coverage of the Beatles' sales [Archive&#93; – BeatleLinks Fab Forum |publisher=Beatlelinks.net |date=January 2, 2002 |access-date=March 5, 2014}}</ref> [[Capitol Records]] opened a vinyl record pressing plant on the western outskirts of Jacksonville, at 1 Capitol Way. The plant produced a number of highly collectible pressings. This plant eventually served the Capitol Records Club, producing vinyl LPs and later audiocassettes, CDs, and DVDs of a number of artists.

At its peak, operating as [[EMI Records]] (owner of Capitol), the plant employed over 1,000 workers. It was a significant location in the music industry.  For example, all seven albums released by country western artist [[Garth Brooks]] sold more than 50 million copies. EMI held a "thank-you" luncheon for 1,000 workers at the Jacksonville plant on March 10, 1995.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6AsEAAAAMBAJ |title=Garth Brooks Sets Records |last=<!--no byline--> |date=April 8, 1995 |access-date=February 22, 2017 |magazine=Billboard |page=44 (column 1) |via=Google Books}}</ref> A decade later, in 2004 EMI ceased manufacturing operations at Jacksonville.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x574921394/EMI-employment-down-to-two-dozen-in-Jacksonville |title=EMI employment down to two dozen in Jacksonville |last=Landis |first=Tim |date=November 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411200537/http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x574921394/EMI-employment-down-to-two-dozen-in-Jacksonville |archive-date=April 11, 2013 |url-status=dead |work=[[State J.-Regist.|The State Journal-Register]] |via=SJ-R.com |access-date=March 11, 2013 }}</ref>