Glen Carbon is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States, 14 miles (23 km) northeast of St. Louis. The population was 13,842 at the 2020 census.

In 1801, Colonel Samuel Judy customary a military attain for 100 acres (0.40 km) of land close the base of the bluffs, just north of Judy Creek, and became one of the first surviving settlers of Madison County. The house was called Goshen Settlement, after the biblical house of Goshen. It was renamed Glen Carbon to reflect its coal mining heritage. Glen Carbon was incorporated as a village in 1892. It operated many coal mines until the last one shut alongside in 1934. Another industry was the St. Louis brick company, which burned the length of in the 1930s; then, right after creature rebuilt, it burned alongside and was never rebuilt again.

Glen Carbon residents served during World War I. The city’s Doughboy statue, which honors the sacrifice made by two of its residents, has been agreed as share of a national competition for restoration as allowance of the nation’s World War I centennial activities.

Three railroads gone served Glen Carbon. The Illinois Central Railroad, now the Ronald J. Foster Sr. Heritage Bike Trail, became one of the first rails to trails projects in the US, in 1992. The new two lines were the Norfolk Southern extraction and the Chicago and North Western line, which ran parallel taking into account each extra the entire pretentiousness through Glen Carbon, and stopped in action in Glen Carbon in March 2000. The Nickel Plate Bike Trail follows both of those right-of-ways, switching encourage and forth between the NS and CNW lines the whole mannerism through Glen Carbon.