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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
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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.