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About Carlyle
City in Illinois, United StatesCarlyle is a city in and the county seat of Clinton County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,253 at the 2020 census. Carlyle is located approximately 50 miles (80 km) east of St. Louis, Missouri, and is home to Illinois' largest man-made lake, Carlyle Lake, and to the General Dean Suspension Bridge, a suspension bridge that is the only one of its kind in Illinois and crosses the Kaskaskia River.
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Housing in Carlyle
The typical Carlyle home is worth about $164,000, up 7.6% in a year, 45% below the Illinois typical home.
Schools in Carlyle
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The public schools Carlyle’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 66% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
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