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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- County
- Randolph
- Total
- 5.82 sq mi (15.08 km )
- Land
- 5.81 sq mi (15.04 km )
- Water
- 0.015 sq mi (0.04 km )
- Elevation
- 627 ft (191 m)
- Density
- 1,173.6/sq mi (453.14/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 17-13139
- Website
- www .chesterill .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Chester
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Randolph County
- Population
- 6814
- Area
- 15.087592
- Elevation
- 206
- Body of water
- Mississippi River
- Capital of
- Randolph County
- Official website
- www.chesterill.com
- Image
- Chester building (Chester, Illinois) 01.jpg
- Households
- 2195
- Dialing code
- 618
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- Commons category
- Chester, Illinois
- postal code
- 62233
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Chester, Illinois
- inception
- 1829-01-01
- P8168
- Podora
- water as percent of area
- 0.2747
- per capita income
- 18069
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Encyclopedic overview
Chester is a city in and the county seat of Randolph County, Illinois, United States, on a bluff above the Mississippi River. The population was 7,640 at the 2020 census. It lies 61 miles (98 km) south of St. Louis, Missouri.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chester” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.