Jordon, Illinois, was a small town in mid-southern Illinois, located in Clay County, established approximately in 1860. Land was donated by William Jordon, and the first of several businesses were established thereon. In 1920, one of the first concrete highways in southern Illinois was started, and the survey of the road (currently named U.S. Route 45, running between Louisville, Illinois, and Effingham, Illinois) was initiated. Keeping with the axiom that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line (in this case between Louisville and Effingham), the road survey took the planned route .29 miles to the west of where Jordon was located. Unfortunately for Jordon, this was just enough distance to make their little village too much out of the way to attract traffic on the new h