Noun. (plural pressings). 1  The application of pressure by a press or other means. 2  A metal or plastic part made with a press. 3  The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
Tower Hill, Illinois. Tower Hill is a village in Shelby County, Illinois, United States. The population was 609 at the 2000 census.
The pioneer village of Hillsboro was less than a dozen years old when Solomon Harkey built his two-story Federal style home in 1834. A plain house by today's standards, it must have seemed a mansion at a time when even the Montgomery County courthouse was a simple log structure. The Harkey family had come to Illinois in 1830 from North Carolina.