Shelbyville, IL

SHELBYVILLE, p-v, capital of Shelby co, Ill,60 S. E. Springfield, 724 W. Situated on the w. bank of Kaskaskia r. It contains a brick court house, 40 feet square, 2 stories high, with a cupola, 9 stores, and about 50 dwellings. It contains a large sulphur spring.  (Haskell's Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the the United States...,1843)

SHELBYVILLE   A post village, capital of Shelby county, on the Kaskaskia river, at the crossing of the Terra Haute and Alton railroad, 60 miles south-east from Springfield. It contains a brick court house and several stores. B. B. Wheeller, Postmaster.  (Hawes' Illinois State Gazetteer...,1859)