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Livingston County
Contact InformationLivingston County Courthouse
112 W. Madison St.
Pontiac, IL 61764
815-844-2006 – County Clerk
815-844-2602 – Circuit Clerk
815-844-2006 – Recorder
IRAD Depository
Illinois State University
2016 Warehouse Rd.
Campus Box 1520
Normal, IL 61790-1520
309-452-6027
Established
- February 27, 1837 (Laws, 1837, p. 33)
Origin of the name of the county
- Named for Edward Livingston, a lawyer and statesman, Mayor of the City of New York, Representative in Congress from New York and later from Louisiana, United States Senator from Louisiana, Secretary of State under Jackson, and United States Minister to France.
Present area, or parts of it, formerly included in
- 1831–1837 – LaSalle
- 1831–1837 – McLean
- 1826–1837 – Vermilion
- 1827–1831 – Tazewell
- 1821–1827 – Fayette
- 1823–1826 – Edgar
- 1819–1823 – Clark
- 1816–1819 – Crawford
- 1815–1816 – Edwards
- 1812–1815 – Madison
- 1801–1812 – St. Clair
- 1790–1801 – Knox, Northwest Territory
County Seats
- 1837–present – Pontiac
History of county governing board
- 1837–1849 – County Commissioners’ Court
- 1849–1858 – County Court
- 1858–present – County Board of Supervisors
Township Government
- Adopted – November 3, 1857
Township Names
- Amity
- Avoca
- Belle Prairie
- Broughton – Name changed from Broughtonville on October 3, 1860.
- Charlotte – Formed from Saunemin in 1865.
- Chatsworth – Name changed from Olivers Grove on October 11, 1859.
- Dwight
- Eppards Point
- Esmen
- Fayette – Formed from Belle Prairie on February 22, 1870.
- Forrest – Formed from Chatsworth as Forrestville in 1861; renamed Forrest in 1865.
- Germanville – Formed as Germantown from Chatsworth in September, 1868; name changed to Germanville on July 22, 1879.
- Indian Grove – Name changed from Worth on May 11, 1858.
- Long Point
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- Newtown
- Odell
- Owego
- Pike
- Pleasant Ridge – Formed from Saunemin in April, 1859.
- Pontiac
- Reading
- Rooks Creek
- Round Grove
- Saunemin
- Sullivan – Formed from Saunemin in 1863.
- Sunbury
- Union – Formed from Odell in 1864.
- Waldo – Formed as Kansas from Nebraska on September 12, 1860; the name was changed to Waldo because of a name conflict with a township in another county.
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