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For a day trip, a weekend
or a lifetime, take some time to discover Clinton Illinois.
Download our Official Clinton
Visitor's Guide (.pdf) - Click
Here!
Located in the center of what the State
Economic Development Department deems "The Golden
Square", Clinton is "smack in the middle of it
all". The proximity to the exact center of the state of
Illinois makes it a destination that's literally easy to reach,
but figuratively difficult to leave. Once you begin to experience
the pleasures of our area, you may just wish to move here. If so,
we can help in that regard too, but for now, let's touch on things
to do while you're here.
Also visit our Events
and Attractions Page, and for more detail, visit our Events
Calendar!
Google Map of Clinton - Click
Here!
For more information on the City of Clinton, visit the City
Website, or contact the Chamber at 217-935-3364 /
866-4-DeWitt!
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A rich
heritage of community awaits. See the Lincoln statue by A. L.
VanDenBergen, as well as other historic monuments on Mr. Lincoln's
Square. If you want to learn about the places Abraham Lincoln has been
and the people he knew as he traveled through central Illinois, enjoy
the Looking for Lincoln Story Trail. There will be over 200 storyboards,
called wayside exhibits, scattered throughout the central Illinois
landscape. Check the Looking For Lincoln website for more details and
locations: www.lookingforlincoln.com
. Don't miss the DeWitt County Museum's C. H. Moore Homestead, a home
owned by Clifton H. Moore. Moore and Lincoln were law partners during
the 1840s and shared a law office in Clinton, now occupied by Moore
& Warner Farm Management. Need genealogy assistance? Contact the
Vespasian Warner Library, home of the DeWitt County Genealogical
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DeWitt County Visitor
Center
The DeWitt County Visitor Center is open seven days a week
from Memorial Day in May until Labor Day in September, and during the
Apple and Pork Festival, which annually takes place the last full
weekend of September. The center is conveniently located at the
intersection of State Route 54 and U.S. Route 51. For
more information, please call the Chamber office at 866-4-DeWitt.
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Ultimate Play Space
Clinton's own Ultimate Play Space is located in Kiwanis Park behind
the YMCA at 417 S. Alexander. The Ultimate Play Space was
built in 2003 by hundreds of volunteers from Clinton and
the surrounding area. Bring the kids and enjoy a
fun-filled afternoon of imagination and play in this
13-acre park. The "UPS" is also adjacent to the
"Spray and Play" spray park.
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Weldon Springs State Park
Just two miles east of Clinton is Weldon Springs State
Park, a
550 - acre park for all seasons, where you can fish, boat,
camp, hike, view or photograph nature and wildlife and so
much more. Pack a picnic lunch, and come spend the day
with the family. Contact Weldon Springs State Park at
217-935-2644.
Weldon
Springs State Park Brochure (.pdf)
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Lincoln
Heritage Committee of DeWitt County
The Lincoln Heritage Committee of DeWitt County was formed by a
group of local volunteers dedicated to preserving, interpreting
and promoting Clinton and DeWitt County’s bonds with Abraham
Lincoln. Those ties run deep as Lincoln played an important role
in Clinton’s early development for nearly 20 years, beginning
with the formation of DeWitt County and the Eighth Judicial
Circuit in 1839 until 1859, the year the prairie lawyer was
elected President of the United States. The city of Clinton is an
official member of the Looking for Lincoln Coalition as well as
the Looking for Lincoln Story Trail and is home to nine Looking
for Lincoln wayside exhibits. An additional wayside exhibit is
located in DeWitt. In Clinton, visitors can stand on the very step
where Lincoln once stood, learn if their ancestors crossed paths
with the man who would one day become the sixteenth President,
tour the home of one of Lincoln’s many local colleagues, see the
house where Lincoln was often a guest, view the bronze statue
commemorating the site on Mr. Lincoln’s Square where Lincoln
declared, “You can fool all of the people part of the time…,”
enjoy a seven-block wayside exhibit walking tour, experience the
Illinois prairie landscape as it appeared in Lincoln’s
circuit-riding days, stroll among the weathered headstones of the
soldiers who fought in “Mr. Lincoln’s War,” and learn of
Lincoln’s unique experiences in DeWitt County through the
Lincoln Heritage Committee’s “Lincoln in DeWitt County”
exhibit. If you are planning a Lincoln-themed visit to Clinton and
would like more details, contact the Clinton Chamber of Commerce
at 217-935-3364 or 866-4-DEWITT or log onto www.lincolnheritageofdewittcounty.com
. To join the Lincoln Heritage Committee of DeWitt County,
contact the Clinton Area Chamber of Commerce. Membership is open
to individuals, families, businesses and organizations. |
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C.H.
Moore Homestead
Open April - December, The C. H. Moore Homestead DeWitt County
Museum, 219 East Woodlawn, Clinton, invites you to "Take a Walk
Into History". Visit Clinton in Central Illinois, heartland of
America's richest farming country. Tour the restored mid-Victorian
mansion which was the home of the Honorable C. H. Moore, Abraham
Lincoln's law partner in Clinton. The mansion is listed in the National
Register of Historic Places. Call 217-935-6066 or visit their website: www.chmoorehomestead.org
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Click HERE to visit our
Events and Attractions page!
Click HERE to visit our Events Calendar!
Click HERE to view our Clinton,
Illinois rack card!
Overnight Accommodations available
at:
Sunset Inn & Suites -
217-935-4140
Town & Country Motel - 217-935-2121
Wye Motel - 217-935-3373
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Gallery
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Abe Lincoln Sculpture
Ducks on Clinton Lake
Fishing at Clinton Lake
Clinton Lake Marina
Jet Ski on Clinton Lake
Weldon Springs
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