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Charleston is a city in, and the county chair of, Coles County, Illinois, United States. The population was 17,286, as of the 2020 census. The city is house to Eastern Illinois University and has close ties behind its neighbor, Mattoon. Both are principal cities of the Charleston–Mattoon Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Native Americans lived in the Charleston Place for thousands of years previously the first European settlers arrived. With the great tallgrass prairie to the west, beech-maple forests to the east, and the Embarras River and Wabash Rivers between, the Charleston area provided semi-nomadic Indians admission to a variety of resources. Indians may have deliberately set the “wildfires” which maintained the local mosaic of prairie and oak–hickory forest. Streams in imitation of names such as ‘Indian Creek’ and ‘Kickapoo Creek’ mark the sites of former Indian settlements. One village is said to have been located south of Fox Ridge State Park near a deposit of flint.

The before history of settlement in the Place was marked by uneasy co-existence between Indians and European settlers. Some settlers lived peacefully taking into account the natives, but case arose in the 1810s and 1820s. After Indians allegedly harassed surveying crews, an escalating series of not a hundred percent documented skirmishes occurred amid Indians, settlers, and the Illinois Rangers. Two pitched battles (complete as soon as cannon upon one side) took place just south of Charleston along “the hills of the Embarrass,” near the door to Lake Charleston park. These conflicts did not slow American settlement, and Indian chronicles in Coles County effectively done when everything natives were expelled by put on an act from Illinois after the 1832 Black Hawk War. With the grudging exception of Indian wives, the last natives were driven out by the 1840s.