Chillicothe
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city in northeast Peoria County, Illinois, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- County
- Peoria
- Founded by
- Erastus C. Root and Samuel T. McKean
- Mayor
- Michael Hughes
- Total
- 5.54 sq mi (14.34 km )
- Land
- 5.27 sq mi (13.66 km )
- Water
- 0.26 sq mi (0.68 km )
- Elevation
- 528 ft (161 m)
- Estimate 2024
- 6,052
- Density
- 1,161.9/sq mi (448.62/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 17-14117
- Website
- www .cityofchillicotheil .org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Chillicothe (/ˌtʃɪlɪˈkɔːθi/) is a town on the Illinois River in Peoria County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, Chillicothe had a population of 6,128. Chillicothe is just north of the city of Peoria and is part of the Peoria Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chillicothe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.