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Event Calendar
A calendar of events for everything going on in Fairfield, Illinois! Have an Event you’d like to add to our Calendar? Let us know here:
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Important Numbers
Utility Hotline (Power Outages) – 618-842-2151 Mayor: Mike Dreith Fairfield Zoning Office: Doug Skaggs Fairfield Police: Richie Fulkerson Cemetery Department: Carroll Dugger
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Schools
Fairfield provides education from early childhood to higher education. Fairfield has four licensed daycare centers, including The Kiddie Kollege of Fairfield, which is a private NAEYC Accredited Early Childhood Education facility located…
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Local Business Directory
A directory featuring all of Fairfield’s local businesses including their phone numbers, emails, social media accounts and websites. Your one stop directory for all of your business needs. Banks Beauty…
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Economic Development
Available Programs Below you can view our available programs for economic development incentives: Click the Links below to view the TIF District Maps Enterprise Zone North Enterprise Zone South Starting…
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Mayor’s Report 5/10/22

Tonight’s Mayor’s Report: Our inspections of the Maple Hill cemetery have been mostly positive despite a very rainy Spring. The new crew has been very aggressive in keeping the cemetery…

May 10, 2022
Mayor’s Report – 4/26/22

Here’s tonight’s Mayor’s Report: We received good news concerning the restoration of a lake at Lakeside Park. The Illinois Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has been notified Fairfield will receive…

April 26, 2022
Mayor’s Report 4/12/22

The Fairfield Business District was approved by the city council on a 5-4 vote. Scheduling conflicts are making it difficult to have the first meeting between the city and the…

April 13, 2022
Mayor’s Report 3/22/22

The city council voted to table the Business District for 90 days on a 4-3 vote with one absence. In the Mayor’s Report: The bidding process has ended with a…

March 23, 2022
Mayors Report 3.8.22

Among other things, the Fairfield City Council unanimously seated Cody Attebery to the unexpired one-year term in the first ward. In my Mayor’s Report,I met with a representative of the…

March 9, 2022
Mayor’s Report 2/22/22

For the first time in recent memory, the city hedged its natural gas price for a month. The March contract is a product of our new relationship with UGM. We…

February 22, 2022
Mayors Report 2/8/22

Wabash Communications will start marketing their internet services in Fairfield, according to management. The city and Wabash established a relationship last year which led to a citywide survey to determine…

February 8, 2022
Mayors Report 1/25/22

A hiring committee of Alderman Lampley, Jon Colclasure, Dian Downs and myself interviewed candidates for the open sewer treatment plant position last Wednesday and unanimously agreed the city should hire…

January 26, 2022
Mayors Report 1/11/22

The Humane Society sent a new contract for services last month. They did not give notice they wanted out of our existing contract which pays them $1500 a month. The…

January 11, 2022
Mayors Report 12/14/21

The Mayor’s Report from the City Council meeting: Libby Lingafelter reports the application for the Rebuild Downtown and Main Street Capital Grant was completed last week. The focus of the…

December 14, 2021