Driving Around Small Town Clinton, Illinois in 4k Video

Filmed on Saturday, November 4 2023, I drive around Clinton, IL to see what's going on.

The city and the county are named for DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York, 1817–1823.

The city was founded in 1835 by Jesse W. Fell of Bloomington, Illinois, a land speculator and lawyer, and James Allen, a representative in the Illinois State Legislature. The two men were on their way from Decatur, Illinois back to Bloomington after a business trip and stopped to rest their horses on the open prairie halfway between the two cities. It occurred to them that this was an ideal location for a settlement, as there was nothing else nearby. They named the town in honor of DeWitt Clinton.

Abraham Lincoln practiced law in the area in the 1850s. He was not a trained lawyer, but lawyers were scarce in the area at the time.

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