{"id":34465,"count":1,"description":"Elsah is a village in Jersey County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2000 U.S. census, the village had a total population of 673. Cyrus Bunting is the the village's current acting mayor.\nElsah is a part of the Metro-East region and the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area.\nElsah is located at 38\u00b057\u203213\u2033N 90\u00b021\u203217\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff38.95361\u00b0N 90.35472\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 38.95361; -90.35472 (38.953720, -90.354732).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.1 square miles (2.8\u00a0km). None of it is covered by water.\nJames Semple, a local lawyer, prominent politician and United States Senator from Illinois, founded Elsah in 1853 and offered free lots to anyone who built houses with stone from his quarry. It is believed that he named the village of Elsah after Aisla Craig, the last outcropping his family saw as they departed Scotland for the United States.\nAlthough Elsah has been described as the \"New England of the Midwest,\" the village is not a New England prototype derived...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/elsah\/","name":"Elsah","slug":"elsah","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/34465","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=34465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}