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Princeton is a city in and the county chair of Bureau County, Illinois, United States. The population was 7,832 at the 2020 census.

Princeton is share of the Ottawa Micropolitan Statistical Area. Due to its location where Interstate 80 meets the Amtrak system, as capably as its well-preserved main street and historic housing stock, Princeton has become a popular satellite town for Chicago and the Quad Cities.

Bureau County was a New England settlement. The original founders of Princeton consisted unconditionally of settlers from New England. These people were “Yankees,” descended from the English Puritans who decided New England in the 1600s. They were share of a response of New England farmers who headed west into what was subsequently the wilds of the Northwest Territory during the before 1800s. Most of them arrived so of the ability of the Erie Canal. When they arrived in what is now Bureau County there was nothing but a virgin tree-plant and wild prairie; the New Englanders laid out farms, constructed roads, erected management buildings and customary post routes. They brought behind them many of their Yankee New England values, such as a passion for education, fueling the inauguration of many schools, as with ease as staunch maintain for abolitionism. They were mostly members of the Congregationalist Church even if some were Episcopalian.