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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- Counties
- LaSalle , Livingston
- Townships
- Bruce , Eagle , Otter Creek , Reading
- Type
- Council-manager government
- Mayor
- Tara Bedei
- Total
- 7.37 sq mi (19.10 km )
- Land
- 7.31 sq mi (18.93 km )
- Water
- 0.069 sq mi (0.18 km )
- Elevation
- 623 ft (190 m)
- Estimate 2024
- 12,295
- Density
- 1,671.7/sq mi (645.45/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Area codes
- 815 , 779
- Fips code
- 17-73170
- Website
- www.ci.streator.il.us
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Streator /ˈstriːtər/ is a city in LaSalle and Livingston counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The city is situated on the Vermilion River approximately 81 miles (130 km) southwest of Chicago in the prairie and farm land of north-central Illinois. As of the 2020 census, the population of Streator was 12,500.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Streator” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.