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About Melrose
Township in Illinois, USMelrose Township is one of twenty-two townships in Adams County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 5,748 and it contained 2,375 housing units. The northwestern part of the township has been separated into Quincy Township.
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The public schools Melrose’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 54% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
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