Dixon (Illinois)

Lee County

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Dixon is a city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Lee County in the northern part of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, Dixon had 15,733 inhabitants.

Geography

Dixon is located at 41 ° 50'20 " north latitude and 89 ° 28'46 " west longitude and extending over 20 km ², spread to 19 km ² of land and 1 km ² water surface. The city is located on both sides of the Rock River. The Mississippi River, which forms the border with Iowa, is 70 km to the west; the Wisconsin border runs approximately 80 km to the north.

The city is the center of Dixon Township, but extends to a part also to the South Dixon Township.

Towns nearby are Grand Detour of Dixon (10 km northeast), Nachusa (8.4 km east), Lee Center ( 19.9 km southeast), Nelson (12,3 km southwest), Palmyra (9,9 km to the west ) and Woosung (14,4 km northwest ).

The nearest large towns are Rockford (68 km northeast), Chicago (165 km east), Peoria ( 145 lm south ), the Quad Cities (113 km west-southwest ) and Dubuque, Iowa (152 km north-west ).

Traffic

Along the southern edge of Dixon leads in west-east direction of Interstate 88, which connects Chicago to the Quad Cities. In the city center take the U.S. Highway 52 and the Illinois State Routes 2, 26 and 38 together. All other roads are subordinate partly unpaved roadways and urban roads.

Parallel to the Rock River runs a railway line of the Union Pacific Railroad through dss center of Dixon.

In the southeast of the urban area of ​​Dixon is with the Charles R. Walgreen Field a small airfield. The nearest major airports are located 61.8 km north east Chicago Rockford International Airport and 114 km south-west of the city center Quad City International Airport.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Dixon 15,733 people in 5826 households. The population density was 828.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 5826 households lived statistically 2.26 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 83.9 percent white, 10.2 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 1.0 percent Asian and 2.9 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 6.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

19.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 65.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.3 percent were 65 years or older. 44.9 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 41,649. The per capita income was $ 22,878. 11.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Sons and daughters of the town

• John Devine, cyclist
• John Adelbert Parkhurst, astronomer
• H. Allen Smith, politicians

Ronald Reagan is not born in Dixon, but grew up there; his childhood home is now a museum (President House ).