Lee County, Illinois

County: Lee

State: Illinois

Lat/Long: 41.7500, -89.2833

The Illinois General Assembly created Lee County out of Ogle County in 1839. Commissioners appointed for the purpose chose the town of Dixon as the county seat.

An Act to Create the County of Lee from the County of Ogle; Frank E. Stevens, History of Lee County Illinois (Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1914), 1:60.