Photo: Wayne Wilkinson · CC BY 2.0Milledgeville has yet to put a famous person on the list
The Illinois lists hold names for 787 towns. The longest list of any town in Illinois belongs to Alton, with 65. Champaign City Township has the second-longest list in Illinois, after Alton, with 64.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Milledgeville), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Milledgeville has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Milledgeville and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.