Alexis

Alexis is a town in Mercer and Warren provinces in the U.S. province of Illinois. The populace was 863 at the 2000 census. The Warren County bit of Alexis is a piece of the Galesburg Micropolitan Statistical Area, while the Mercer County parcel is a piece of the Davenport.

Alexis was initially called Alexandria, and under the last name was laid out in 1870 when the railroad was reached out to that point. Subsequent to learning of another Illinois town named Alexander, the organizers needed another name. Around this time, Grand Duke Alexis was going by the nation, after whom the town was renamed.