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Du Quoin
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city in Perry County, Illinois, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- County
- Perry
- Type
- Mayor-Council
- Body
- City Commission
- Total
- 7.06 sq mi (18.29 km )
- Land
- 6.98 sq mi (18.07 km )
- Water
- 0.081 sq mi (0.21 km )
- Elevation
- 449 ft (137 m)
- Density
- 835.0/sq mi (322.38/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 17-21267
- Website
- duquoin .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Du Quoin
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Perry County
- Population
- 5827
- Area
- 18.285291
- Elevation
- 143
- Official website
- www.duquoin.org
- Image
- Main Street, DuQuion, Illinois, September 2019.jpg
- Households
- 2657
- Dialing code
- 618
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- Commons category
- Du Quoin, Illinois
- postal code
- 62832
- inception
- 1853-01-01
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Du Quoin, Illinois
- water as percent of area
- 1.1451
- per capita income
- 24500
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Du Quoin (/duːˈkɔɪn/ doo-KOYN) is a city in Perry County, Illinois, United States. Its name reflects an alternate spelling of the surname of Jean Baptiste de Coigne, a chief of the Tamaroa and later Kaskaskia indigenous people of the area during the American Revolutionary War and early statehood. As of the 2020 census, Du Quoin had a population of 5,827. It is best known for hosting the annual DuQuoin State Fair and the Street Machine Nationals.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Du Quoin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.