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Quincy (City and county-seat of Adams)

a city and county-seat of Adams co., Ill.; on the Mississippi river , and on the Wabash, the Burlington Route, and the Quincy, Omaha, and Kansas City railroads; 104 miles W. of Springfield. Here are the St. Francis Solanus College (R. C.), Chaddock College (M. E.), Gem City and Union business colleges, St. Mary's Institute (R.

QUINCY C.), public library, Blessing and St.

Mary's Hospitals, State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, residence of a Protestant Episcopal bishop, parks, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, National, State and private banks. and several daily and weekly periodicals.

There is daily steamboat connection with cities along the Mississippi river.

Quincy has flouring mills, carriage factories, machine shops, foundries, saw mills, planing mills, and extensive manufactures of cigars, tobacco, sash, blinds, stoves, elevators, pumps, furniture, bricks, steam engines, plows, etc. magnificent railroad bridge crosses the river here. Pop. (1910) 36,587; (1920) 35,978.