COLLINSVILLE, a city of south-western Illinois, U.S.A., on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 12m. E.N.E. of St. Louis. The population in 192o was 9,753 ; in 193o, 9,235 by the Federal cen sus. It is in a coal-mining and farming region; has zinc and lead works, flour-mills, a large poster-printing plant, a tomato products factory, and manufactures pressed bricks and cow-bells. It was settled about 1810, and incorporated as a city in 1873.