Plainview is an unincorporated community in Hillyard Township, Macoupin County, Illinois, United States. Plainview is northeast of Shipman.
History Plainview had a post office, which closed on October 3, 1998. Thomas D. Bare (1867–1931), Illinois newspaper editor and state senator, was born in Plainview.'Illinois Blue Book 1907-1908,' Biographical Sketch of Thomas D. Bare, pg. 276-277
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