Monticello (Illinois)
Piatt County
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Monticello is a small town in Piatt County in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the census of 2000 Monticello had 5,138 inhabitants. The city is the county seat ( county seat ).
Geography
After entering the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.0 square miles, equivalent to ( 7.7 km ²).
Attractions
One attraction is the city immediately adjacent to Robert Allerton Park, it is also home to a conference center at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. The park is named after a wealthy private citizen who had him create and adorned with statues. The most famous statue is located in the center of the park "Sun Singer".
History
The first settlers in Monticello was George Haworth in 1822, who worked as a liaison to local Indian tribes. However, the beginning of permanent settlement falls on the year 1829 and goes back to James A. Piatt, after the later the county was named.
In 1837, came the emergence of the city proper. Abraham Marquiss, William Barnes, James McReynolds, and James A. Piatt Jr. founded a corporation and purchased land from James A. Piatt. Under the proposal, McReynolds ' according to which the city was named after the country estate of Thomas Jefferson on the name Monticello. The official founding date of the city is July 1, 1837, the foundation celebrations were taking place until three days later. Already on 27 January 1841, the local County Monticello was established as a county seat.
Demographic data
2000 lived in Monticello 5,138 people in 2,146 households and 1,446 families. The population density was 665.7 inhabitants / km ². There were 2,226 residential buildings with an average density of 288.4 / km ². When populations were found in the census 99.01 % White, 0.08 % African American, 0.14 % indigenous population, 0.14 % Asian, 0.02 % Oceanians, 0.08 % other, and 0.54 % shared ancestry. Hispanics or Latinos had a share of 0.80%.
Of the 2,146 households out of which 29.2% living in the household children under 18 years. 58.4 % of households were among married couples, 6.8% for single mothers, 32.6 % were non-families. 29.7% were single-person households, 16.6% it was single-person households whose associated person was older than 65 years. The average household size in 2000 was 2.34 and the average family size 2.91. The city shows a balanced age structure with relatively similar proportions of the individual age cohorts. The average age of residents was 42 years.