Clinton (Illinois)
DeWitt County
17-15001
Clinton is a small town and county seat of DeWitt County in the center of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2000, Clinton had 7,485 inhabitants.
Clinton is after DeWitt Clinton, the former Governor (1817-1823) of New York, named.
About 14 km east of the city, the nuclear power station Clinton.
Geography
Clinton is located at 40 ° 09'08 " north latitude and 88 ° 57'33 " west longitude. The city stretches over 6.7 km ², which consist exclusively of land area.
By Clinton runs in a north -south U.S. Highway 51, the 54 crosses in the center of the city with the Illinois State Route 10 and the Illinois State Route.
By Clinton run two railway lines.
The nearest towns are the 35.4 kmwestliche Lincoln, the 37.9 km North Bloomington, the 64.3 km eastern Champaign and 35.3 kmsüdliche Decatur.
From Clinton there are over Illinois ' 76.7 km distant capital Springfield in a southwesterly direction 236 km to St. Louis, Missouri, to Chicago, there are north- northeasterly direction 260km, the Quad Cities are located 262 km to the northwest and Indiana's capital Indianapolis is located 261 km to the east.
History
Clinton was founded in 1835 by Jesse Fell, a businessman from Bloomington (Illinois ) and the members of the Illinois General Assembly, James Allan. They were on a business trip from Bloomington to Decatur and made a break halfway. The place appeared to them ideal for the installation of a new settlement, especially since no one inhabited the area. The settlement was named Clinton in honor of former New York Governor DeWitt Clinton.
1858 Abraham Lincoln gave a speech in Clinton. This following quote is delivered:
You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
You can fool all the people some time, some even more. But you can not fool all of the people permanently.
Demographic data
In the census of 2000 a population of 7,485 was determined. These distributed to 3157 households in 2,000 families. The population density was 1103.3 / km ². There were 3,395 residential buildings, which corresponded to a housing density of 500.4 / km ².
The population consisted in 2000 of 97.1 % White, 0.8 % African American, 0.2% Native Americans, 0.2 % Asian and 0.9 % other. 0.7 % said to be descended from at least two of these groups. 2.2% of the population were Hispanics who belonged to the various of the aforementioned groups.
25.3% were under the age of 18, 8.5 % from 18 to 24, 28.9 % 25-44, 21.5% from 45 to 64 and 15.8 % 65 and older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females were statistically 891.1 men in the over 18 -year-olds 89.1.
The median income per household was $ 36,279, the median family income $ 48,024. The average income of men was $ 34,777, and for women about $ 22,296. The per capita income amounted to $ 18,729. Around 7.8 % of families and 10.8 % of the total population were below the poverty line income.