{"id":34312,"count":1,"description":"Saybrook is a village in southeast McLean County, Illinois, United States. The population was 693 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Bloomington\u2013Normal Metropolitan Statistical Area.\nKnown by locals as the \"City of Shade and Water,\" it is believed to be named in honor of Old Saybrook, Connecticut.\nSaybrook is located at 40\u00b025\u203239\u2033N 88\u00b031\u203236\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff40.4275\u00b0N 88.52667\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 40.4275; -88.52667 (40.427490, -88.526536).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1\u00a0km), of which, 0.8 square miles (2.1\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10\u00a0km) of it (3.66%) is water.\nFounding of Saybrook\nSaybrook was laid out 4 March 1856 by Isaac M. Polk (c.1814\u2013?). Not much is known about Polk. He was born in Indiana and does not seem to have lived in McLean County for very long. In 1860 and 1870 he was in neighboring Livingston County. Saybrook is the only town in McLean County on the banks of a major river and the uppermost town on the...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/saybrook\/","name":"Saybrook","slug":"saybrook","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/34312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=34312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}