Editing Shelbyville, Illinois (section)

== Notable people ==
[[File:Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Shelbyville, IL).jpg|thumb|200px| A statue of [[Abraham Lincoln]] in front of the Shelbyville [[Courthouse]]]]
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* [[George A. Bowman]]  (1890–1957), [[Wisconsin State Assembly]] member
* [[Orval Caldwell]] (1895–1972), [[painter]] and one-time president of the [[Art Institute of Chicago]]
* [[George D. Chafee]] (1839–1927), Illinois state legislator and lawyer
* [[Josephine Cochran]] (1839–1913), invented and patented the dishwasher (1886)
* [[Augusta Cottlow]] (1878–1954), concert pianist
* [[Jesse Monroe Donaldson]] (1895–1970), served as [[Postmaster General of the United States]] (1947–1953)
* [[Howland J. Hamlin]]  (1850–1909), served as [[Illinois Attorney General]] (1901–1905)<ref name="Hamlin">{{Cite web | url=http://ag.state.il.us/about/history.html |title = Illinois Attorney General - History of the Illinois Attorney General}}</ref>
* [[Samuel Wheeler Moulton]] (1821–1905), Illinois politician, Congressman, considered the father of public education in Illinois, lived in Shelbyville (1849–1905)
* [[Robert Marshall Root]] (1863–1937), noted Midwestern tonalist and impressionist painter
* [[Anthony Thornton (representative)|Anthony Thornton]] (1814–1904), state representative (1851–1852), Congressman (1865–1867) and [[Supreme Court of Illinois]] justice  (1870–1873); debated [[Abraham Lincoln]] in Shelbyville (1856)