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Fairmont City

Fairmont City is a village in St.

Fairmont City
Fairmont City · formulanone from Huntsville, United States
The place

Fairmont City is a village in St. Clair and Madison counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,265 at the 2020 census, down from 2,635 in 2010. In the 1990s Fairmont City's Hispanic population doubled, and as of 2020, over 79% of the population was of Hispanic descent.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Fairmont City

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    5th & Missouri

    5th & Missouri station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system.

    3.8 km · station in St. Louis MetroLink light rail system, Illinois, USA · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Emerson Park

    Emerson Park station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system.

    2.3 km · station in St. Louis MetroLink light rail system, Illinois, USA · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center

    Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system.

    2.7 km · station in St. Louis MetroLink light rail system, Illinois, USA · Wikipedia

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Getting to Fairmont City

Airports
St. Louis Lambert (STL), 24 km
  • Chicago → Fairmont City
    412 km · quickest by air, 5h 46m · $240–350
  • Indianapolis → Fairmont City
    361 km · quickest by road, 5h 30m · $30–42
  • Louisville → Fairmont City
    380 km · quickest by road, 5h 51m · $33–45
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Fairmont City

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Fairmont City. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in}} {{go | name | url | address 38.570833 | long | phone | hours | wikipedia Q7589613 | lastedit=2019-03-01 | content=3 miles east of the city center and serves charter and cargo flights.
  • Go nextFor a scenic day trip, take the Great River Road north from Alton to Grafton, Illinois, stopping for antique shops and then on to lunch at the Père Marquette Lodge in Père Marquette State Park.
  • Go nextCharles - nearby and makes a nice day trip.

From Wikivoyage: St. Louis, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    1,468 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,870 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,227 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,333 km
  5. 05
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,415 km

If you know how people move in Fairmont City – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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