Place:Greenville, Bond, Illinois, United States

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NameGreenville
TypeCity
Coordinates38.889°N 89.404°W
Located inBond, Illinois, United States
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Greenville is a city in Bond County, Illinois, United States, east of St. Louis. The population as of the 2010 census was 7,000. It is the county seat of Bond County.

Greenville is part of the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is also considered part of the Metro East region of Illinois.

Greenville is celebrating its Bicentennial in 2015 and has been called a "Norman Rockwell town." It is home to Greenville College, the Richard Bock Museum, the American Farm Heritage Museum, the Armed Forces Museum and the Demoulin Museum and a federal prison, Federal Correctional Institution, Greenville (FCI Greenville). It is also home to internationally known companies, including Nevco Scoreboard, the largest privately owned scoreboard company in the world, and DeMoulin Brothers, the world's oldest and largest manufacturer of band uniforms.

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