Dwight, IL Facts, Population, Income, Demographics, Economy

Population (total): Population in 2017: 4,038 (100% urban, 0% rural). >Population change since 2000: -7.4%

Population (male): 2,033

Poverty (overall): Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2017: 12.2%

Poverty (breakdown): (10.8% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 27.6% for Black residents, 12.5% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 19.0% for two or more races residents)

Ancestries: Ancestries: German (23.2%), American (14.1%), Czech (7.2%), Danish (7.2%), Irish (6.0%), English (5.4%).

Elevation: 640 feet

Land Area: 2.57 square miles.

Zip Codes: 60420

Races:
      White alone - 3,802 - 90.9%
      Black alone - 121 - 2.9%
      Hispanic - 122 - 2.9%
      Two or more races - 62 - 1.5%
      Asian alone - 37 - 0.9%
      American Indian alone - 2 - 0.05%

Like most new towns founded in Illinois in the 1850s, Dwight was designed without a town square. It was centered instead on a depot ground. This was a widened area of railroad property, about 1,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, where the tracks passed through the town. Such depot grounds were common in towns of the 1850s and may still be found at Gridley, Chatsworth, Odell, Towanda, McLean and many other central Illinois places. By the 1870s depot grounds had begun to fall out of favor. Unfortunately, while Morgan had deeded the central 100 foot band to the Chicago and Mississippi, he never got around to turning over the remainder of the depot grounds to the railroad. This led to a tangled lawsuit, which eventually had to be settled by the United States Supreme Court. The suit provides excellent information on the early history of Dwight. Dwight's Original Town was quite large, consisting of twenty-four blocks each of which contained twenty-eight lots. Unlike Odell, where the entire Original Town was aligned with the railroad, only the small central part of the Original Town of Dwight paralleled the tracks, with West street running diagonally on the northwest side of the railroad and East street on the south side. In the remainder Original Town, streets ran true north-south or east-west. This created two odd triangles of land where these streets met the diagonal streets at the center of town. The southeastern triangle became the site of Dwight’s waterworks. The early depot was on the northwest side of the tracks.

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Local Area Info: Dwight, Illinois

Dwight is a village located mainly in Livingston County, Illinois, with a small portion in Grundy County. The population was 4,260 at the 2010 census. Dwight contains an original stretch of the famous U.S. Route 66, and continuously used a railroad station designed in 1891 by Henry Ives Cobb from 1892 until 2016. It is about 80 miles (129 km) southwest of Chicago. I-55 bypasses the village to the north and west.

According to the 2010 census, Dwight has a total area of 3.23 square miles (8.37 km2), of which 3.22 square miles (8.34 km2) (or 99.69%) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) (or 0.31%) is water.

Dwight was laid out on 30 January 1854 by Richard Price Morgan Jr. (17 September 1828- 20 May 1910), James C. Spencer (29 July 1828 – after 1990), and John Lathrop (6 March 1909 – May 1870), each of these three men took a quarter of the land. All were working as engineers for the railroad. The final quarter jointly owned by two Bloomington brothers, Jesse W. Fell (10 November 1808 – 25 February 1878) and Kersey H. Fell (1 May 1815 – 1 May 1893) The five were a distinguished group of men and all had links to the Chicago and Mississippi Railroad. Spencer was born in the Hudson River valley south of Albany; his ancestors included a United States Supreme Court Chief Justice and two governors of New York; he was later to have an important career in Wisconsin railroads. Lathrop was a civil engineer with a long history of working with canals and railroads in New York; he would soon return to Buffalo. Morgan was the son of a noted civil engineer and he later became nationally known for his work on electric railroads in New York. The Fell brothers were well-connected Bloomington land developers who had been active in helping found many central Illinois towns including Clinton, Normal, Pontiac, and Towanda. They were employed by the railroad as land agents; the Fells are perhaps best known today for their role in persuading Abraham Lincoln to write his autobiography. The plan of the founders was to purchase a block of land along the route of the railroad and to divide it into four equal parts. Morgan would then take charge of the operation. He would draw up a plat of the new town, sell the lots, and divide the proceeds among the others. The station was to be placed at the point where the four quarters met. Any unsold lots would be divided among the partners. The other men seemed to believe that Morgan was acting in the interest of the railroad. The town was named for Henry Dwight, who had funded most of the building of this part of the railroad. The Chicago and Mississippi soon became the Chicago and Alton Railroad. Attempts in 1858 to rename it Jersey, Beckman, or Dogtown failed.

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Population (total): Population in 2017: 4,038 (100% urban, 0% rural). >Population change since 2000: -7.4%

Population (male): 2,033

Poverty (overall): Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2017: 12.2%

Poverty (breakdown): (10.8% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 27.6% for Black residents, 12.5% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 19.0% for two or more races residents)

Ancestries: Ancestries: German (23.2%), American (14.1%), Czech (7.2%), Danish (7.2%), Irish (6.0%), English (5.4%).

Elevation: 640 feet

Land Area: 2.57 square miles.

Zip Codes: 60420

Races:
      White alone - 3,802 - 90.9%
      Black alone - 121 - 2.9%
      Hispanic - 122 - 2.9%
      Two or more races - 62 - 1.5%
      Asian alone - 37 - 0.9%
      American Indian alone - 2 - 0.05%

Like most new towns founded in Illinois in the 1850s, Dwight was designed without a town square. It was centered instead on a depot ground. This was a widened area of railroad property, about 1,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, where the tracks passed through the town. Such depot grounds were common in towns of the 1850s and may still be found at Gridley, Chatsworth, Odell, Towanda, McLean and many other central Illinois places. By the 1870s depot grounds had begun to fall out of favor. Unfortunately, while Morgan had deeded the central 100 foot band to the Chicago and Mississippi, he never got around to turning over the remainder of the depot grounds to the railroad. This led to a tangled lawsuit, which eventually had to be settled by the United States Supreme Court. The suit provides excellent information on the early history of Dwight. Dwight's Original Town was quite large, consisting of twenty-four blocks each of which contained twenty-eight lots. Unlike Odell, where the entire Original Town was aligned with the railroad, only the small central part of the Original Town of Dwight paralleled the tracks, with West street running diagonally on the northwest side of the railroad and East street on the south side. In the remainder Original Town, streets ran true north-south or east-west. This created two odd triangles of land where these streets met the diagonal streets at the center of town. The southeastern triangle became the site of Dwight’s waterworks. The early depot was on the northwest side of the tracks.

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