Central Illinois
Central Illinois is a region of Illinois extending south from Chicagoland along the border with Indiana. It includes Champaign, DeWitt, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, LaSalle, Livingston, McLean, and Shelby counties.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Springfield
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Springfield is a city in the center of the state of Illinois.
Champaign-Urbana
Champaign-Urbana is a metropolitan area in central Illinois, composed of the towns of Champaign, Urbana, and Savoy.Decatur
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Decatur is a city in Macon county, Illinois. There are many examples of Frank Lloyd Wright's influence on the Prairie Style Architecture in Decatur.
Destinations
Danville
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Danville is a small city of about 34,000 in Central Illinois about 5 miles west of the Illinois-Indiana border and about 140 miles south of Chicago.
Iroquois County
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Iroquois County is a county in Illinois. It is bordered to the north by the Kankakee Area, and to the east by Indiana.
Lincoln
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Lincoln is a city in Central Illinois. It was settled by Europeans in the 1830s, and is home to two colleges and two prisons.
Carlinville
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Carlinville is a town in the Central Illinois region of Illinois with a population of 5,710 as of the 2020 US Census.
Pontiac
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Pontiac is a city in and the county seat of Livingston County, Illinois, United States.
Effingham
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Effingham is a city in and the county seat of Effingham County, Illinois, United States.
Vandalia
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Vandalia is a city in Central Illinois. The town where Abraham Lincoln began his political career, Vandalia was the state capital of Illinois from 1820 to 1839.
Shelbyville
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Shelbyville is a city in and the county seat of Shelby County, Illinois, United States, along the Kaskaskia River.
Mount Olive
Mount Olive is a city in Macoupin County, Illinois, United States.Washington
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Washington is a city in Western Illinois, just east of Peoria and the Illinois River.
Paxton
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Paxton is a city and county seat of Ford County in Central Illinois. Carnegie Library…
Arcola
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Arcola is a city in the Central Illinois region of Illinois with about 2,900 residents in 2020.
Petersburg
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Petersburg is a city in and the county seat of Menard County, Illinois, United States, on the bluffs and part of the floodplain overlooking the Sangamon River.
Litchfield
Litchfield is a small city in Central Illinois. Since its founding in 1853, when the Terra Haute, Alton & St.Lexington
Lexington is a city in McLean County, Illinois, United States.El Paso
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El Paso, Illinois is a charming little town approximately two hours southwest of Chicago.
Chenoa
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Chenoa is a village in Central Illinois. It sits north of Champaign-Urbana on I-55 and has a population of about 1,700.
Atlanta
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Atlanta is a small city in Logan County, Illinois along historic Route 66.
Rantoul
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Rantoul is a village in northern Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
Bloomington-Normal
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Bloomington, pop. 77,000, is a city in the Midwestern state of Illinois in the United States of America, on the classic Route 66 highway across the country.
McLean
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McLean is a village in McLean County, Illinois, United States.
Williamsville
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Williamsville is a village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States.
Gardner
Gardner is a village in Grundy County, Illinois, United States.Dwight
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Dwight is a village located mainly in Livingston County, Illinois, with a small portion in Grundy County.
Sherman
Sherman is a village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States.Fithian
Fithian is a village in Oakwood Township, Vermilion County, Illinois, United States.Piper City
Piper City is located in Ford County, which is in the Central Illinois region of Illinois, United States of America.Central Illinois
- Type: region
- Description: region of Illinois, USA
- Location: Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude of centre
40.23° or 40° 13' 48" northLongitude of centre
-88.72° or 88° 43' 12" westWikidata ID
Q5061228Central Illinois Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Chinese: 伊利諾州中部
- English: Heart of Illinois
- French: Central Illinois
- German: Central Illinois
- Hebrew: מרכז אילינוי
- Italian: Central Illinois
- Slovenian: Central Illinois
- Slovenian: Centralni Illinois
- Slovenian: Heart of Illinois
- Slovenian: osrčje Illinoisa
- Spanish: Central Illinois
- Venetian: Illinois sentrałe
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Central Illinois. Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 4.0.