WPXS (Daystar), licensed to Mt. Vernon, moved its transmitter northwest of Breese, IL in the St. Louis, MO DMA and is no longer available over-the-air in Dahlgren. Viewers with a rotator and suitably elevated antenna can also receive virtually all over-the-air broadcasts from Evansville, Indiana. Cable television service (analog), previously available from Longview Communication, was terminated in 2006. Hamilton County Communications (a wholly controlled subsidiary of the Hamilton County Telephone Cooperative - HCTC) acquired the cable-operating rights upon Longview's demise and operated an IPTV-based television service under the Futiva brand until 2019 when HCC exited the business. Mobile telephony services are provided by ATT (formerly Cingular) and Verizon. At one time 6 providers offered cellphone coverage, either directly or through roaming agreements. This included First Cellular of Southern Illinois (which HCTC co-owned) and T-Mobile. Local landline telephone and DSL service is available through the Hamilton County Telephone Cooperative (and/or Hamilton County Communications). Wireless broadband service is provided by all mobile providers. Satellite broadband service is available from Exede/ViaSat and HughesNet. Government and schools Dahlgren is governed by a non-partisan village president (mayor) and six-member non-partisan Board of Trustees, half of whom are elected to staggered four-year terms in odd-numbered years. Steve Wilkerson was re-elected village president in 2017. The village provides basic utility services including water, sewer, and gas and contracts on a fee-for-service basis with a third party for refuse removal. Dahlgren is located within the Hamilton County Unit 10 school district. Elementary-age children attend Dahlgren Grade School through sixth grade. Junior high school and high school students travel to the county seat of McLeansboro, where a new combined school complex was completed in 2001. Dahlgren is also in Community College District #521 (Rend Lake College, located Ina, Illinois) as established by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. However, university and college-age students are not restricted to attending in their local district. References External links History of Dahlgren McLeansboro Times-Leader Mt. Vernon Register-News Centralia Sentinel/Mt. Vernon Sentinel Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois (Williamson County Regional Airport) Evansville Western Railway Paducah & Louisville Railway Hamilton County Communications Hamilton County Unit 10 Schools Hamilton County Historical Society Rend Lake College Villages in Hamilton County, Illinois Villages in Illinois Mount Vernon, Illinois micropolitan area Populated places established in 1872 1872 establishments in Illinois