page_title: Mount Vernon, Illinois
section_title: Local government
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Vernon, Illinois / Government / Local government
caption_attribution_description: English: Western side and front of the Jefferson County Courthouse, located on Courthouse Square surrounded by Tenth (Illinois Route 37), Ninth, and Broadway and Main (Illinois Route 15) Streets in Mount Vernon, Illinois, United States. It was built in 1941.
context_page_description: Mount Vernon is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 15,277 at the 2010 census.
  Mount Vernon is the principal city of the Mount Vernon Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Jefferson and Hamilton counties.
context_section_description: The city of Mount Vernon uses a Council-manager government with a mayor. The Mt. Vernon City Council meets regularly on the first and third Mondays each month.  Meetings are moved to the following Tuesday if the first or third Monday falls on a holiday.
  The elective officers of the City of Mt. Vernon shall be a Mayor, four Councilmen, a City Clerk, and a City Treasurer. At the general election for City officers to be starting in January 1969 and every four years thereafter, there shall be elected a Mayor, City
  Clerk, City Treasurer, and two Councilmen. At the general election held in 1967 and every two years thereafter, two Councilmen shall be elected.
  The current mayor and council are:
  Mayor – Johnny Lewis
  Council – Donte Moore, Jeff May, Jim Rippy, and Mike Young.
caption: Jefferson County Courthouse
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