Princeton, IL

PRINCETON,  p-v., capital of Bureau co., Ill., 135 N. Springfield, 808 W. It contains a court house, jail, and a number of dwellings. It was laid out in 1833.  (Haskell's Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the the United States...,1843)

PRINCETON  A thriving post village, capital of Bureau county, on the line of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, 65 miles north from Peoria. It is situated in a fertile prairie, one or two miles east from Bureau creek. Two newspapers are printed here. C. N. Pine, Postmaster.  (Hawes' Illinois State Gazetteer...,1859)