My hometown. County seat of Adams County, Illinois.
Population: about 50,000
Current Mayor: Charles M. Shultz (really)
Home of:
-The Quincy Senior High Blue Devils and the Q Notre Dame Raiders.
-Quincy University
-The guy who dropped a nuke on Hiroshima
-Sprouts, the restaurant that invented Latice Fries. (aka waffle fries in some parts of the world)
-Someone from Big Brother, I don't know who
-The guy who plays Martin Crane on Frasier
-No less than three Sonics

I've drawn a small diagram to help in the location of Quincy. If you've ever seen Illinois before, then this should look vaugly familiar.

       _/
     --
IOWA |
    /
 __/ 
_|
 /     ILLINOIS
/
*<----Quincy
\
 |
  \_
    \_
      |_
MO       \
         |

the following story is in fact true: