Brookshire Estates is a 48-unit affordable community featuring two- and three-bedroom apartments in the southwest Illinois town of Jerseyville. Cohen-Esrey Communities (CEC) has managed the property for a third-party owner since construction was completed in 2005. Community amenities include a clubhouse with computer lab and full-size kitchen, a playground, and barbeque grill with a picnic table. Unit interiors have large spacious closets and big cabinets as well as private patio/deck areas with an additional storage closet. Two-bedroom units are 875 square feet and rent from $518 to $577 per month. Three-bedrooms are 1,175 square feet and rent from $588 to $668 per month.

In 1827, James Faulkner, a Pennsylvania native, and his family built a small framed structure that was named the "Little Red House," in the area that is now known as Jerseyville. The "Little Red House" served as the first stagecoach station, first tavern, first school, and first bank in the immediate area. By 1834, the small settlement that grew up around Faulkner's home, then known as Hickory Grove by its residents, was surveyed and platted by two immigrants from New Jersey, John Lott and Edward M. Daly. Lott and Daly's involvement marked the beginning of a proportionally large number of merchants, businessmen and settlers from New Jersey. A meeting was called in that same year at the "Little Red House" to vote for a town name, so a post office could be established. The name of Jerseyville was chosen to honor the native state of many of its inhabitants. In 1839, Jersey County was formed out of Greene County and Jerseyville was named as its county seat.

In recent decades, Jerseyville has been a testing ground in the agricultural biotechnology field. Bayer (formerly Monsanto) owns and operates a facility located just south of the city, which in 1987 was the site of the world's very first biotechnology field trial – first with tomatoes and later that year with soybeans. The facility was also home to the first triple stacked corn trial in 1998, which later became a part of one of Monsanto's top-selling products. The facility was further expanded in 2008, and now consists of sixteen greenhouses and almost 300 acres of land for field testing. Today, Jerseyville is home to 8,337 people and is the county seat of Jersey County, IL, and is approximately 50 miles from St. Louis.

Heather Sauerwein (2010) is the Property Manager and Nicole Collins-Watson (2022) is the Regional Manager. Paige Bohling (2022) is the Property Accountant, Garrett Cook (2022) is the Property Accounting Assistant, and Rodney Chmidling (2015), is the Accounts Payable Specialist.