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Randolph County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 33,476.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/17/17157.html )〕 Its county seat is Chester.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Owing to its role in the state's history, the county motto is "Where Illinois Began." It contains the historically important village of Kaskaskia, Illinois's first capital. The county is part of Southern Illinois in the southern portion of the state known locally as "Little Egypt", and includes fertile river flats, part of the American Bottom; it is near the Greater St. Louis area. ==History== Randolph County was organized in 1795 out of a part of St. Clair County. It was named in honor of Edmund Randolph, Governor of Virginia. George Rogers Clark of the army of Virginia captured the area from the British on July 4, 1778, near the end of the Revolutionary War. The area then became the seat, for several years, of Illinois County, Virginia, although the Congress of the Confederation legislated the existence of the Northwest Territory on July 13, 1787. Edmund Randolph was Governor of Virginia at the time Virginia ceded the Northwest Territory to the United States. In 1809, when Illinois became a separate territory, Territorial Secretary Nathaniel Pope, in his capacity as acting governor, issued a proclamation establishing Randoloph as one of the Illinois' two original counties. The county's boundaries were last changed in 1827, when land was taken to form Perry County. The Mississippi River has played a prominent role in the county's history, altering its boundaries in 1881 when it severed the isthmus that connected Kaskaskia to the Illinois mainland, destroying the original village of Kaskaskia and forcing its historic cemetery to be relocated across the river to Fort Kaskaskia. Crains Island (), southeast of Chester, is another enclave of Illinois west of the Mississippi that was created by a change in the river's course. File:Randolph County Illinois 1809.png|Randolph County as it was re-established in 1809. This diagonal border line had been drawn by the Indiana Territorial government in 1803.〔White, Jesse. ''Origin and Evolution of Illinois Counties.'' State of Illinois, March 2010. ()〕 File:Randolph County Illinois 1812.png|Randolph County between 1812 and 1813 File:Randolph County Illinois 1813.png|Randolph County between 1813 and 1816 File:Randolph County Illinois 1816.png|Randolph County between 1816 and 1827 File:Randolph County Illinois 1827.png|Randolph County in 1827, reduced to its current borders 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Randolph County, Illinois」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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