Quincy, (1)

Quincy, (1) the third city of Illinois, and capital of Adams county, is on the Mississippi River, 160 miles above St Louis and 262 by rail SW. of Chicago. It is handsomely built on a high bluff, has a large trade by the river and extensive railway connections, an important railway bridge crossing the river at this point. The public buildings include a fine court-house, a medical college, several hospitals and asylums, an Episcopal cathedral, and some forty other churches. The city has many large flour-mills, machine-shops, foundries, saw- and planing-mills, breweries, and manufactories producing stoves, furniture, carriages, tobacco, &c. Pop. (1880) 27,268; (1890) 31,494.—(2) A town of Massachusetts, near the sea, and 8 miles S. of Boston by rail. The township produces the famous Quincy granite, and was the birthplace of John Hancock, John Adams, and his son, John Quincy Adams. Pop. (1880) 10,570; (1890) 16,723.