Ogle County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of 2000, the population was 51,032. Its county seat is Oregon.
The Rochelle Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Ogle County.
Ogle County was formed in 1836 out of Jo Daviess and LaSalle Counties, and named in honor of Captain Joseph Ogle, a veteran of the Revolutionary War who came to Illinois in 1785. The county was divided three years later in 1839, when Lee County was ...
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Ogle County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of 2000, the population was 51,032. Its county seat is Oregon.
The Rochelle Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Ogle County.
Ogle County was formed in 1836 out of Jo Daviess and LaSalle Counties, and named in honor of Captain Joseph Ogle, a veteran of the Revolutionary War who came to Illinois in 1785. The county was divided three years later in 1839, when Lee County was formed.
Ogle County is one of the most consistently Republican counties in the nation when it comes to Presidential elections. In the last 150 years Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 run as a Progressive was the only time a non-Republican carried the county. No Democratic candidate has ever won the county, which favored the Whig Party before the Republican Party was formed. It is also represented by Republican Donald A. Manzullo as a county in Illinois's 16th congressional district.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of...
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